Re: Regclass and quoted table names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Emmanuel Cecchet
Subject Re: Regclass and quoted table names
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Msg-id 49AE7541.1030700@asterdata.com
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In response to Re: Regclass and quoted table names  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Regclass and quoted table names  (Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@asterdata.com> writes:
>   
>> It looks like the behavior of regclass is not consistent when table 
>> names are quoted. The name is returned without the quotes if the name is 
>> lower case with eventual trailing numbers, otherwise it is returned with 
>> quotes.
>>     
>
> It's intentional that it quotes only when needed.
>   
This is problematic in situations where the output of the cast is involved in some later join which returns incorrect
resultsbecause of the extra double quotes surrounding the table name. 
 
Is there a way to override the default behavior to have a consistent quoted or non-quoted result?

Thanks,
Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Cecchet
Aster Data Systems
Web: http://www.asterdata.com



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