Re: GUC names in messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: GUC names in messages
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Msg-id 22998fc0-93c2-48d2-b0f9-361cd5764695@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: GUC names in messages  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: GUC names in messages
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On 01.11.23 10:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> And there's never been any
> real clarity about whether to quote GUC names, though certainly we're
> more likely to quote anything injected with %s.  So that's why we have
> a mishmash right now.

I'm leaning toward not quoting GUC names.  The quoting is needed in 
places where the value can be arbitrary, to avoid potential confusion. 
But the GUC names are well-known, and we wouldn't add confusing GUC 
names like "table" or "not found" in the future.



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