On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 23:45, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurj...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Can we please change the comment lines below the patch heading to have the >>> real name instead of the postgresql.org ID? >>> >>> Patch by Pavel Stehule >>> Patch by Gurjeet Singh >>> >>> instead of >>> >>> Patch by okbobcz >>> Patch by singh.gurjeet >>> >>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=8 >> >> I don't think that information is available to the app, at least at >> present... when you log in, it is empowered to ask the community login >> DB "is this combination of a username and a password valid?" but all >> it gets back is "yes" or "no". > > Sure it is. When you call community_login(), it'll return you the > yes/no field, the full name, the email address, an author text (not > used anymore, so don't rely on that), community docs superuser flag > (also not used, don't rely on, kind of a failed experiment) and last > successful login time prior to this one. > > It's quite possible all users haven't included their full name when > they registered, but for those that have the information is available.
Hrm, so in theory I could maintain a (possible stale) cache of this information. Seems sort of hairy, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
