Re: Need feedback on new feature (\for) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tom Lane wrote:
> I said:
> > ... I think it makes much more sense to push the
> > complexity into the control query and keep the substitution rules
> > non-surprising.
>
> BTW, taking that approach as gospel, we could forget my idea of
> declaring datatypes for the control-query results.  Just substitute
> 'em literally.  The quoting transformations could be done easily in
> the control query with quote_literal() or quote_ident().

Has the patch author looked at how psql variables adds quotes, usually
like:

    "\"":var"\""

It is ugly, but it seems like the clearest way.

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