Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
Date: 2003-08-10 03:24:39
Message-ID: 20030810112356.M98663-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> >I don't see any backwards-compatibility issue, because usernames
> >containing double quotes just plain don't work in past releases;
> >we've never before bothered to have a complete quoting solution
> >in ACLs.
> >
> >
>
> Is it useful to allow these special chars at all? Seems this creates a
> lot of work, and most admins will probably stick to "normal" user names
> anyway.

It's the principle of the thing :) Also, I don't know how non-english
speakers treat their double quote characers...

Chris

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