Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx> writes:
> > Hi, I have found what I thing is a quite annoying behaviour of
> > Postgres (psql). When you type (and ask for complation) for some
> > string that has some characters not in the ASCII encoding it requires
> > a double quote on it, however if you don't put those double quotes
> > around it, you can still execute the query.
>
> ... in other words, it doesn't require the double quotes. I don't see
> the value of being more restrictive. Why is this annoying?
It's because you can't complete without the double quote, so,
select something.fo<tab>
doesn't complete if you have only foó as the only completion whereas
select something ."fo
does.
Regards,
Manuel.
