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Re: Open 7.3 items

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-15T16:38:45Z
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > OK, no one complained/commented on my idea of having global users have a
> > > trailing '@', so here is a patch that implements that.  It has the
> > > advantages of:
> >
> > Probably because not everyone saw it.  I know I didn't.  This entire
> > issue is growing more and more complex.  How about a configure item
> > to not even compile it in?  Or better yet, a configure item to put
> > it there with the default off.
>
> I think I am prety close, and I don't see a configure flag as any better
> than a GUC option that is off by default.

But how many people would even use it?  I can't see adding the bloat
unnecessarily and risking it accidently being turned on.  Am I wrong
and really alot of people actually want/need this?

Vince.
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