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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster postmaster.c
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0102201652280.938-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to pgsql/src/backend/postmaster postmaster.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@hub.org>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Log message:
>     Truncate incoming username and database name to NAMEDATALEN-1 characters
>     so that we don't reject overlength names unnecessarily.

Is this necessarily a good idea?  ISTM that if you send the wrong name,
then it's wrong, period.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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