Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname

> On Nov 5, 2021, at 6:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> I think it would appropriate to normalize identifiers that are going to
>> be stored in catalogs.  As presented, this is a bit ridiculous and I see
>> no reason to continue to support it.
> 
> If we had any sort of convention about the encoding of identifiers stored
> in shared catalogs, maybe we could do something about that.  But we don't,
> so any change is inevitably going to break someone's use-case.

I only started the discussion about normalization to demonstrate that existing behavior does not require it.

> In any case, that seems quite orthogonal to the question of how to treat
> names with too many dots in them.

Agreed.

>  Considering we are three days out from
> freezing 14.1, I think it is time to stop the meandering discussion and
> fix it.

Agreed.

>  And by "fix", I mean revert to the pre-14 behavior.

That's one solution.  The patch I posted on October 20, and rebased two days ago, has not received any negative feedback.  If you want to revert to pre-14 behavior for 14.1, do you oppose the patch going in for v15?  (I'm not taking a position here, just asking what you'd prefer.)

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