--On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:27:55 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> From my perspective, we could really use a "delimiter" between the
>> "fields" of log output which is unlikely to appear within those fields
>> instead of parsing by character count, rather than making dbname a
>> special case.
>
> Well, Andrew was arguing that space is a likely character in dbnames,
> but then again it's possible to put "]" into dbnames. I think the only
> way to make this completely unambiguous would be to introduce a quoting
> convention for dbnames (and usernames when those get added). But if
> the goal is to allow simple parsing of log entries, that won't improve
> matters at all.
>
> My feeling about it is that DBAs who want to automatically parse log
> entries can just forbid spaces in the dbnames and usernames they allow.
> The KISS principle applies here.
>
> A variant (which'd be okay with me) is to separate these fields with
> tabs instead of spaces; then the rule for DBAs would be "don't allow
> tabs in db/user names".
Tabs cause issues in syslog output if I remember correctly.
>
> regards, tom lane
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