On 2/16/21 2:35 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > if an user copypaste PostGIS credentials in the New connection dialog, > often it ends up with extra space(s) at the end of username, dbname, or > passwd. This is not easy to spot, and ends up with a lot of useless > frustration. Of course psql strips spaces, but qgis encloses each string > with '', so it preserves the spaces. This is somewhat unavoidable, as > the user may _want_ the trailing spaces. Therefore I suggest to show > explicitly the spaces, e.g. with a coloured block, so the user can > easily understand the source of error.
I do not think a sane user would want to end a username OR password with a space.... This is asking for issues, everywhere in your toolchain ... Would it not be better to just 'strip' username,dbname and passwd? From trailing (and starting) whitespace? Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
