Re: PG do not accept quoted names for tables/columns

Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>

From: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
To: Yaniv Hamo <hamo@cs.Technion.AC.IL>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-06T19:42:41Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:26, Yaniv Hamo wrote:
>   Hi,
> I noticed that Postgres issues a fatal error when given a quoted name of
> table or column. This is a problem in secured cgi scripts, which quote
> everything they get from the user, to avoid malicious users from trying to
> execute SQL commands using some engineered input.

The SQL specification states that you should quote identifiers with
double quotes.  Single quotes are used for quoting values:

CREATE TABLE "testtable" ( "test" INT );

PostgreSQL is SQL compliant on this issue.

Regards,
					Andrew.
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