Re: Open 7.3 items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open 7.3 items
Date: 2002-08-14 17:04:20
Message-ID: 200208141704.g7EH4K111237@candle.pha.pa.us
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We are clearly going for user(at)db now.

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Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2002 07:21 pm, Sander Steffann wrote:
> > I think choosing . as the delimiter is a dangerous choice... People have
> > not expected it to be special until now, so maybe another character can be
> > chosen? I would suggest a colon if possible, so you would get dbname:user.
> > I don't expect that a lot of people use a colon as the dbname or username,
> > but I could be very wrong here.
>
> The choices have been enumerated as . and @. I personally vote for either:
> user(at)db
> OR
> db!user
> (sorry, having been a UUCP node admin shows at times...) To my eyes the bang
> notation is more of a 'divider' than the @. Unless there is some _really_
> good reason to not use !, that is. :-)
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11
>

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