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

Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Yaniv Hamo <hamo@cs.Technion.AC.IL>
Cc: <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-06T19:36:12Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Yaniv Hamo wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> shared# select version();
>                                version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66
>
>
> shared# CREATE TABLE 'testtable' ('test' INT);
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'testtable'" at character 14

I don't believe that's a valid query. For delimiting identifieres I think
you want double quotes not single quotes.