Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
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Msg-id 20030810112610.Y98663-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
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> Seriously, I think there's a good case for banning a few characters in
> at least some names - like []<>'"~#*|\ , say

Why?  They're allowed in all other identifiers.  And what if someone
already has a database full of usernames with those chars?  They wouldn't
be able to load their dump properly...

Chris

> andrew
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Is it useful to allow these special chars at all? Seems this creates a
> >>lot of work, and most admins will probably stick to "normal" user names
> >>anyway.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, the reason it's been left unfixed for so long is exactly that it
> >didn't seem pressing.  But if Chris wants to do the work, I won't stand
> >in his way ...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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