| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
| Date: | 2002-08-16 02:20:14 |
| Message-ID: | 3600.1029464414@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> If we don't suffix global users with '@', a global user named 'dave'
> could not attach to a database called 'db1' as himself if a user called
> 'dave(at)db1' existed.
No, it's the other way around (assuming you check user before user(at)db):
the existence of a global user would prevent similarly-named local users
from connecting. This does not strike me as too terrible, assuming that
there are not very many global users.
regards, tom lane
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