Re: Open 7.3 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Open 7.3 items
Date
Msg-id 4047.1029602863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Open 7.3 items  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Open 7.3 items  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: Open 7.3 items  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> OK, I think we are doing this backwards.  Instead of adding '@' to
> global users, and then removing it in the backend, why don't we have
> local users end with '@', that way, global users continue to connect
> just as they have before, and local users connect with @, so dave@db1
> connects as 'dave@' and if he has other database access, he can use the
> same 'dave@' name.

No, *that* would be backwards.  In installations that are using this
feature, the vast majority of the users are going to be local ones.
And the global users will be the presumably-more-sophisticated admins.
Putting the onus of the '@' decoration on the local users instead of
the global ones is exactly the wrong way to go.
        regards, tom lane


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