Re: quoting psql varible as identifier

2009/12/29 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> Pavel Stehule escribió:
>> 2009/12/29 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> > Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> so we cannot simply implement quote_ident on client side :(. So we
>> >> have to use a real query.
>> >
>> >> It is acceptable for you?
>> >
>> > No, certainly not --- that adds a boatload of failure conditions.
>> > Just quote it unconditionally.
>>
>> ok
>>
>> this function have to live in libpq - it needs some not exported
>> functionality. But, it would not be a problem.
>
> Can we use a trick similar to pg_dump's?

??

Pavel
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
> PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
>