Re: Proposal for psql wildcarding behavior w/schemas

Tom Lane wrote:
> I said:
> > So far as I recall, no one's really taken up the challenge of deciding
> > how psql's various \d commands should work in the presence of schemas.
> > Here's a straw-man proposal:
>
> It occurs to me that I wasn't thinking about the effects of
> double-quoted identifiers. Should dot, star, and question mark
> be taken as non-special characters if they're inside double quotes?
> (Probably.) Does that mean that we don't need backslash-oriented
> escaping conventions? (Maybe; would people expect 'em anyway?)
> Any other implications I missed? (Very likely.)

Uh, if we follow the shell rules, quote-star-quote means star has no
special meaning:

$ echo "*"
*

$ echo \*
*

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