AW: How to surround a selected value with double quotes?

Subramanian,Ramachandran <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>

From: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, "pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-06-22T08:55:48Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
Thank you so much!!!  Yes I ment bash script. 

QUOTE_IDENT()  worked like black magic!! 

Postgres puts quotes for the names that need them and no quotes for those that do not need them 馃槉 馃槉 

LG

Ram 


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-----Urspr眉ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> 
Gesendet: Montag, 22. Juni 2026 10:26
An: Subramanian,Ramachandran IT-md-db <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>; pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org
Betreff: Re: How to surround a selected value with double quotes?

On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 07:46 +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> I wrote a script to analyze and run vacuum on tables that need it.

I assume you are talking about a bash script.

> Sadly at the time I wrote the script, I never expected a schema name 
> to be pure numbers.
> 聽
> So my Script does not work now.
> 聽
> I want to add double quote marks to each schema name and table name select.
> I tried using the CONCAT function, but it does not work as I expected it to.
> 聽
> I would be grateful if someone can help me understand the mistake I am making with the CONCAT.

You are a victim of (self-inflicted) SQL injection.

Just surrounding the schema name with double quotes is not enough.
What if the schema name itself contains a double quote?

You should use PostgreSQL's functions to properly quote an identifier.
With a shell script, I think your only choice is to use SQL:

#!/bin/bash

schema='12345  43'
table='tab"567'

quoted_schema=$(psql -Atq -v var="$schema" <<EOF SELECT quote_ident(:'var'); EOF
)

quoted_table=$(psql -Atq -v var="$table" <<EOF SELECT quote_ident(:'var'); EOF
)

sql="SELECT col FROM $quoted_schema.$quoted_table"


Yours,
Laurenz Albe