Re: Open 7.3 items

Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Some mentioned using user@dbname, though the idea of sorting made
> > several recant their votes.
> >
> > So, based on the voting, I think dbname.username is an agreed-upon
> > feature addition for 7.3.  I will work on a final patch with
> > documentation and post it to the patches list for more comment.
> 
> The nice thing about using an @ sign, amongst being more consistent
> with kerberos and email, is that it doesn't preclude the use of .'s in
> a database name.  For simplicity's sake, I'd really like to be able to
> continue issuing database names that are identical to the domain that
> they serve and worry that relying on a "." will either make the use of
> a dot in the username or database impossible.  An @ sign, on the other
> hand, is the ubiquitously agreed upon username/host separator and
> makes it all that much more consistent for users and administrators.
> 
> Username: john.doe
> Database: foo.com
> possible pg_shadow entry #1: john.doe.foo.com
> possible pg_shadow entry #2: john.doe@foo.com
> 
> If people are worried about the sorting, ORDER BY domain, username.
> My $0.02.  -sc

Well, they aren't separate fields so you can't ORDER BY domain.  The dot
was used so it looks like a schema based on dbname.

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