Re: quoting psql varible as identifier

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-19T18:46:39Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Updated patch attached.  I still think this is a bizarre API.
>
> Well, if we had it to do over I'm sure we'd have done it differently,
> but the functions are there now and we aren't going to change them ...

I agree, but I don't feel the need to repeat the mistakes we've
already made by slavishly copying them into new places.  I think as
long as we're adding a new function, we should make it behave sanely.
We could even take the opportunity to go back and add a saner version
of PQescapeStringConn.

...Robert