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Frank Millman wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I found the following post dated October 2004 -
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl ( at ) familyhealth ( dot ) com ( dot )
> au> writes:
> > >> pg_get_serial_sequence() does dequoting/downcasing on its relation-name
> > >> argument, but not on its column-name argument.
> >
> > > I presume the reason for that is that the first paramater can be
> qualified:
> >
> > Right. From a bare-functionality point of view there's nothing wrong
> > with it, it just seems inconsistent and therefore likely to trip someone
> > up in future.
> >
> > But it seems no one else cares, so I'll shut up about it ...
>
> This inconsistency has just bitten me. Did anyone decide to fix it, or does
> it still behave the same?
>
> I am using 8.1.3. Apologies if this has been fixed in 8.2 - I could not find
> anything in the Release Notes.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank Millman
>
>
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