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?
>

I see it - we can move function (content) fmtId from dumputils.c to libpq.

Pavel

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