> Seriously, I think there's a good case for banning a few characters in
> at least some names - like []<>'"~#*|\ , say
Why? They're allowed in all other identifiers. And what if someone
already has a database full of usernames with those chars? They wouldn't
be able to load their dump properly...
Chris
> andrew
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Is it useful to allow these special chars at all? Seems this creates a
> >>lot of work, and most admins will probably stick to "normal" user names
> >>anyway.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, the reason it's been left unfixed for so long is exactly that it
> >didn't seem pressing. But if Chris wants to do the work, I won't stand
> >in his way ...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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