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

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
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Msg-id 3F3540D5.2050101@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
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>>So if you agree that there is a quoting problem,and you don't mind
>>breaking backwards compatibility for it, I'll do a complete patch...
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>I don't see any backwards-compatibility issue, because usernames
>containing double quotes just plain don't work in past releases;
>we've never before bothered to have a complete quoting solution
>in ACLs.
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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.

Regards,
Andreas



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