Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Enrico Weigelt
Subject Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion
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Msg-id 20040304174925.GC17390@nibiru.metux.de
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In response to Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion
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* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [2004-03-04 11:24:11 -0500]:

<snip>
> Double quotes are for names (identifiers).  Single quotes are
> for string literals (constants).

BTW: is this general SQL syntax or just PostgeSQL ?

mysql does no distinction (which is IMHO very unclean), and it gets
even worse since mysqldump's output does it exactly the wrong way:
identifiers in '' and string constants in "" ...


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