Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...

Of course, now I've just gone to some trouble to accomodate funky 
characters in user and dbnames in logging I'd have to kill him ...

:-)

Seriously, I think there's a good case for banning a few characters in 
at least some names - like []<>'"~#*|\ , say

andrew

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
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>>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.
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>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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