Re: Encountered an error - Mailing list psycopg

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Encountered an error
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Msg-id 20160310143256.GG9358@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Encountered an error  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 03:30:14PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> While this is a nice solution to OPs problem I cannot resist
> the urge to point out that to me the whole approach of adding
> a column from within client code (outside a database
> management application) does have at least a whiff of design
> smell to it.

Like, what happens if the user enters something to be used as
a column name which isn't suitable for an identifier ?

And then what if two different unsuitable user input values
get normalized into the same column-name-suitable version ?

Karsten
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