On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, I think we are doing this backwards. Instead of adding '@' to > > global users, and then removing it in the backend, why don't we have > > local users end with '@', that way, global users continue to connect > > just as they have before, and local users connect with @, so dave@db1 > > connects as 'dave@' and if he has other database access, he can use the > > same 'dave@' name. > > No, *that* would be backwards. In installations that are using this > feature, the vast majority of the users are going to be local ones. > And the global users will be the presumably-more-sophisticated admins. > Putting the onus of the '@' decoration on the local users instead of > the global ones is exactly the wrong way to go.
Unsophisticated users is hardly a reason. After all they do have an @ in their email address. If they're told the username is foo@ then their username is foo@. What's so difficult about that? Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking http://www.camping-usa.com http://www.cloudninegifts.com http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com ========================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly