On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But it doesn't need to affect anyone, even if it's enabled. Isn't > > the lack of an @ just as good as an @ at the end of the username? > > No, because there isn't any @ in the incoming connection request in the > normal-user case: just a user name and a database name, which *we* have > to assemble into user@database. > > We can't really expect the users to do this for us (give user@database > as their full user name). There are a number of reasons why I don't > wanna do that, but the real showstopper is that the username field of > the connection request packet is only 32 bytes wide, and we cannot > enlarge it without a protocol breakage. Fitting "user@database" in 32 > bytes would be awfully restrictive about your user and database names.
Ok, I misunderstood. I thought it was the user going to have to type that in based on some of yesterday's comments. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking http://www.camping-usa.com http://www.cloudninegifts.com http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com ========================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
