On 11/22/2010 12:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 11/22/2010 11:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Perhaps a reasonable compromise is to issue the truncation warnings when
>>> an overlength name is being *entered* into the connection table, but not
>>> for simple lookups.
>> Can't we distinguish a name from a conninfo string by the presence of an
>> = sign?
> No, because = isn't disallowed in names ...
Ok, true, but it still might not be a bad heuristic to use for issuing a
warning on lookup.
cheers
andrew