Re: extended stats objects are the only thing written like "%s"."%s"

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> I think using "%s.%s" as is done everywhere else is pretty much
> pointless. It's not usable as an object identifier, since you have to
> make sure to remove the existing quotes, and unless the names work
> without quotes, you have to add different quotes. So it looks «nice»
> but it's functionally more work.

I think what we are doing there is following the message style
guideline that says to put double quotes around inserted strings.
In this case schema.object (as a whole) is the inserted string.
People often confuse this with SQL double-quoted identifiers, but it
has nothing whatsoever to do with SQL's rules. (It's easier to make
sense of this rule in translations where the quote marks are not
ASCII double-quotes ... like your example with «nice».)

In short: Justin is right, this should not be done this way.

regards, tom lane