Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 22 13:36:18 -0400 2010: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 22 13:03:06 -0400 2010: > >> Wouldn't an empty string be acceptable? SQL doesn't allow zero-length > >> identifiers, so this couldn't be confused with any really-valid value. > > > I dunno really -- what is this value used for, anyway? If it's just to be > > able to generate the SHOW table which is then parsed to obtain the > > fulltext configuration, seems OK. > > Well, the more general point is what should "SHOW session_authorization" > show in an autovacuum process? The fact that Andrew wasn't > intentionally doing that doesn't mean that someone else might not try > it. I think we can either decide it should be an obviously-illegal > value, or try to make it return the name of the cluster-creating > superuser. The latter seems like more work than it's worth though.
+1 for the illegal value. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
