Re: Email address column verification foraddress list

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Randal L(dot) Schwartz" <merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com>
Cc: Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Email address column verification foraddress list
Date: 2010-04-13 13:09:36
Message-ID: v2udb471ace1004130609kcad98b5dza2ba5f13d52ac139@mail.gmail.com
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> So for most applications written against this database, they're probably
> assuming only one email address in this column.
>
> And then you confuse the issue by putting two or more comma-separated
> addresses, which are not universally usable when a single address
> is provided.

Surely not Randal. Client application developers can simply read the
regex in the check constraint to see its behaviour :-)

Regards,
Peter Geoghegan

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