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Re: Open 7.3 items

Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>

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From: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
To: Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Ron Snyder <snyder@roguewave.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-07T13:37:03Z
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> > But, could live with a longer (128 byte) namedatalen to allow
> > a unique user%domain.
> 
> That seems like a serviceable solution to me -- it seems quite easy to
> implement this functionality outside the database proper (at least
> until a proper solution is devised). Keep in mind that the current
> FE/BE protocol limits database and user names to 64 characters.
> That's another thing I'd like to fix in 7.4.

Aw shoot.  64 characters isn't enough to hold a good chunk of our
clients domain names let alone usernames in front.   I'm not looking
forward to trimming domains either.

I hope 7.4 that a protocol change for 7.4 is warranted.  Looks like
there are a fair number of things in that area.