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From Subramanian,Ramachandran
Subject AW: How to surround a selected value with double quotes?
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In response to Re: How to surround a selected value with double quotes?  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
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Hello, 

 thank you for your reply. I tried FORMAT(%I.%I,schema,tablename) and it works too. I have altered my script
accordingly.
 

Now to the question why CONCAT and || , I am extremely new to Postgres and Linux .I am working on PG/Linux only since
LastNovember. 😊  I come from 30 yrs of working on mainframes ( DB2 / IMS / REXX) and I tend to simply use what works in
DB2and fix only what does not work.  The short answer is , lack of knowledge and experience. 
 


Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my question 😊 

LG

Ram 





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Von: depesz@depesz.com <depesz@depesz.com> 
Gesendet: Montag, 22. Juni 2026 12:09
An: Subramanian,Ramachandran IT-md-db <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>
Cc: pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org
Betreff: Re: How to surround a selected value with double quotes?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 07:46:09AM +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> #Build the SQL needed to get the list of tables that are approaching the SAFE_XID_GAP
> LIST_OLDEST_UNFROZEN_XID_SQL=" SELECT   \
>        cast (age(PGCL.relfrozenxid) as integer) as GAP, \
>        INTB.table_catalog as DB_NAME,   \
>        "$PORT_NO" , \
>        CONCAT('"',INTB.table_schema,'"') || '.' ||  \
>        CONCAT('"',PGCL.relname,'"') as TABLE_NAME,      \
>        pg_table_size(PGCL.oid) as TABLE_SIZE \

*NEVER* concatenate identifiers. It will lead to bugs. Instead use
format() function (I find it MUCH simpler than quote_ident):

In your case, instead of the concat calls (why concat, if you can do ||, anyway?

select
    format('%I.%I', INTB.table_schema, PGCL.relname) FROM …

depesz

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