On 04/05/2015 08:04, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
> On 04/30/15 18:18, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>> I think this change (and maybe before it too) is wrong.
>>
>> If one creates a "User1", you should not create USER1. Nor "úser2"
>> should be ÚSER2.
> But ASCII users used to be case-insensitive from the beginning of
> firebird. Here is an extract from PWD_verify_user() in firebird 1.0:
> if (user_name)
> {
> for (p = name, q = user_name; *q; q++, p++)
> *p = UPPER7 (*q);
> *p = 0;
> }
>
> I do not know a place in docs where it's explicitly mentioned. But
> "sysdba" is used in lower case in samples in ib6 beta doc from Borland.
Everything regarding to users is being changed in FB 3.
Every time I try Jaybird I need to figure out how to make it work.
So I expect we at least do the right things completely.
>> User names should respect quoted identifier rules, when quoted. So only
>> unquoted ASCII characters should be uppercased.
>>
>> There may be an exception, in DPB tags. AFAIK, roles were uppercased if
>> DPB does not have quotes. I think this is weird, but maybe it should be
>> equal for user names.
>>
>> I also didn't understood why did you inserted a new unicode upper-case
>> table, since that were already available and usable. But I didn't fully
>> reviewed the patch.
> This is much simpler to explain. Existing upper-caser depends upon ICU,
> and I did not want to add it as dependency to fbclient.
>
>
And why user names should be upper cased in the client?
Adriano
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