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: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-17T16:47:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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