On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see what the problem is of dumping out the entire content of > > pg_shadow into a flat file. First you look for a non-@ user, then you > > look for an @ user that matches the database. > > While I'd prefer that approach myself, the way Bruce is proposing does > have a definite advantage: there is no problem with confusion between > global users and database-local users of the same username. "foo@" is > global, "foo" is not. > > My own feeling is that the confusion argument is a weak one, and that > not having to use "@" to log in as a global user would be worth having > to avoid duplicating global and local names. But I'm not sufficiently > excited about it to volunteer to do the work ;-)
Here we go again. I thought you just said that the @ wouldn't be something a user would have to do. I understood that to be any user. It's back to ugly again. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking http://www.camping-usa.com http://www.cloudninegifts.com http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com ========================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
