Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers?
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Msg-id 17557.1367371389@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers?  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers?  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> Huh. I thought you were talking about quoting identifiers in an SQL
> dump. But you're not, you're talking about quoting identifiers in sql
> being sent to the server during the pg_dump process. Why did pg_dump
> ever not quote all such identifiers?

Well, readability of those commands is worth something too, but in any
case the short answer is that pg_dump has only one quote-an-identifier
function, not different ones for server commands and final output.
        regards, tom lane



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