Re: Open 7.3 items

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com>
To: ngpg@grymmjack.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-08-14T16:25:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
ngpg@grymmjack.com dijo: 

> > OK, the vote is not shifting from '.' to '@'.  Is that how we want to
> > go?  I like the pg_user enhancement.  Marc, comments?  This was your
> > baby. 
> 
> Would it be hard to setup an internal PG variable for the actual character 
> to be used?

That'd be good, because almost any character people wants to use as
delimiter is actually valid in database and user names.  So giving
people a choice is a good thing.

For example someone may want to use email address as usernames, and that
messes up the splitting on @.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Cuando miro a alguien, mas me atrae como cambia que quien es" (J. Binoche)