From: Bruce Momjian on 23 Feb 2010 00:22 Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(a)commandprompt.com> writes: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> It will affect any dbname or username in mixed or upper case, not just > >> ALL, won't it? > > > No, I am suggesting to change only the comparisons to the literals > > "all", "sameuser", "samegroup" and "samerole". What happened to this idea? > Hmm. These words are effectively keywords, so +1 for treating them > case-insensitively, as we do in SQL. But I wonder whether there isn't > an argument for making the comparisons of role and database names > behave more like SQL, too --- that is FOO matches foo but not "FOO". And this one? -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Robert Haas on 23 Feb 2010 13:22 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(a)commandprompt.com> writes: >> > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> It will affect any dbname or username in mixed or upper case, not just >> >> ALL, won't it? >> >> > No, I am suggesting to change only the comparisons to the literals >> > "all", "sameuser", "samegroup" and "samerole". > > What happened to this idea? > >> Hmm. These words are effectively keywords, so +1 for treating them >> case-insensitively, as we do in SQL. But I wonder whether there isn't >> an argument for making the comparisons of role and database names >> behave more like SQL, too --- that is FOO matches foo but not "FOO". > > And this one? Nobody's implemented them? I'd suggest adding these to the TODO. ....Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Bruce Momjian on 23 Feb 2010 16:31 Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(a)commandprompt.com> writes: > >> > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> >> It will affect any dbname or username in mixed or upper case, not just > >> >> ALL, won't it? > >> > >> > No, I am suggesting to change only the comparisons to the literals > >> > "all", "sameuser", "samegroup" and "samerole". > > > > What happened to this idea? > > > >> Hmm. ?These words are effectively keywords, so +1 for treating them > >> case-insensitively, as we do in SQL. ?But I wonder whether there isn't > >> an argument for making the comparisons of role and database names > >> behave more like SQL, too --- that is FOO matches foo but not "FOO". > > > > And this one? > > Nobody's implemented them? I'd suggest adding these to the TODO. Added: |Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
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