Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas G. Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump
Date
Msg-id 36145DD4.757F1092@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump  ("Matthew C. Aycock" <matt@mathcs.emory.edu>)
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> After looking at the code for pg_dump, it appears that all identifiers
> go through fmtId which does as you thougt, it looks to see if a character
> is non-lower case, a digit, or an '_' then it double quotes it.
> I am going to change this behavior to always double quote it and see
> if it breaks anything.

I've already got patches to do the double-quote thing, with a command
line option (-n) to recover the old behavior. Will commit that, so you
will only need to do the memory leak stuff. Or would you prefer that I
send you my patches and you can integrate them?

                   - Tom

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