Re: Open 7.3 items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Specifically, what is ugly about it?  Is it that global users have an @
> at the end of their names?  How do we prevent namespace collisions
> _without_ doing this?  I am all ears.

The folks who are unhappy about this design basically think that the
namespace collisions issue should not be considered a vital requirement;
whereupon you don't have to have the '@' because a search in the
pg_shadow flat file would work well enough.

It comes down to a judgment call about which is uglier, putting '@' on
global usernames or having to avoid namespace collisions.

At this point I think we've wasted more than enough time on the
argument; I haven't seen any new ideas recently, nor any change in
anyone's position.  Since no one seems to want to do the work to make a
better implementation, I vote we accept the patch we have and move on.
        regards, tom lane