--On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:41:34 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>> --On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:27:55 -0400 Tom Lane
>> <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>>> 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.
>
> Really? What kind of issues? We're already quite likely to be sticking
> tabs into the log output, e.g. if log_statement is turned on.
I remember dealing with \n's, and don't recall if \t is a problem as well
in SCO's syslogd. I'll play tonite, and see what it does/doesn't deal
with.
LER
>
> regards, tom lane
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