Re: Open 7.3 items
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-16T02:20:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > If we don't suffix global users with '@', a global user named 'dave' > could not attach to a database called 'db1' as himself if a user called > 'dave@db1' existed. No, it's the other way around (assuming you check user before user@db): the existence of a global user would prevent similarly-named local users from connecting. This does not strike me as too terrible, assuming that there are not very many global users. regards, tom lane