Re: Open 7.3 items

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>
To: Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Ron Snyder <snyder(at)roguewave(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open 7.3 items
Date: 2002-08-07 13:37:03
Message-ID: 1028727424.12474.20.camel@jester
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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.

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