On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 16:36, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Keep it in whatever session state where you keep the login data?
Oh, and then copy it from there if someone posts a comment? I suppose that could work, although it would only apply to comments added from the point of the code change going forward. Seems like it would be nicer to have a table with username/real name in the CF DB. But I guess that would require configuring some kind of replication... -- 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
