Re: quoting psql varible as identifier

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Date: 2009-12-29T20:05:53Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

2009/12/29 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2009/12/29 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>>> Can we use a trick similar to pg_dump's?
>
>> I see it - we can move function (content) fmtId from dumputils.c to libpq.
>
> This is not a good idea.  pg_dump can be expected to be up-to-date with
> the backend's keyword list, but libpq cannot.
>
> Just quote the thing unconditionally.  It's not worth working harder
> than that anyway.

I see it.

Pavel

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>                        regards, tom lane
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