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Re: Hard-coded PUBLIC in pg_dump

David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>

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From: David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Nicolai Tufar <ntufar@apb.com.tr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-12-01T18:54:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 10:49  AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> PUBLIC doesn't seem like a very common column name --- seems safe to
>> make it reserved.  We made 'value' reserved in 7.3, and that was a 
>> much
>> more common one.
>
> I'm still quite unhappy about 'value', and would like to look into
> making it unreserved again.  This business does show that there are 
> some
> pitfalls in that, though :-(

Actually, I don't think it's reserved in 7.3, only in the 7.4 
development sources. Otherwise, Bricolage would fail hard, and it 
doesn't. So there's some time to play with this issue, I think.

David

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