> > Which brings me back to thinking a GUC is the way to deal
> with that -
> > you'll definitly know what kind of KDC you have when you set up
> > Kerberos. But perhaps this GUC should be for "permit
> case-insensitive
> > kerberos principals" and not "case-insensitive usernames". And it
> >
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which brings me back to thinking a GUC is the way to deal with that -
> you'll definitly know what kind of KDC you have when you set up
> Kerberos. But perhaps this GUC should be for "permit case-insensitive
> kerberos principals" and not "case-insens
> > Another way to help in this particular case would be to
> have libpq on
> > win32 only force-lowercase the username IF it was retreived
> from the
> > system (but not when manually specified).
>
> Well, I personally don't care how bizarrely the Win32 port
> behaves ;-) so I won't complain
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another way to help in this particular case would be to have libpq on
> win32 only force-lowercase the username IF it was retreived from the
> system (but not when manually specified).
Well, I personally don't care how bizarrely the Win32 port behave
>> I would like to see a GUC variable to enable case
>insensitive usernames.
>> Would a patch for such a thing be accepted?
>
>No, not any more than it would be for any other SQL identifiers. See
>(many, many) past threads.
Yes, I've seen the many past threads on that ;-) I figured it might be
a
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to see a GUC variable to enable case insensitive usernames.
> Would a patch for such a thing be accepted?
No, not any more than it would be for any other SQL identifiers. See
(many, many) past threads.
regards,
Today, usernames are case sensitive. This can cause some problems in for
example a kerberos environment (such as a Windows domain, in my case),
because the system usernames are case insensitive. So if I log in to my
workstation as "Maghag" I cannot connect to postgresql, because my
postgresql usern
