| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Need feedback on new feature (\for) |
| Date: | 2003-08-25 01:29:05 |
| Message-ID: | 200308250129.h7P1T5524491@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I said:
> > ... I think it makes much more sense to push the
> > complexity into the control query and keep the substitution rules
> > non-surprising.
>
> BTW, taking that approach as gospel, we could forget my idea of
> declaring datatypes for the control-query results. Just substitute
> 'em literally. The quoting transformations could be done easily in
> the control query with quote_literal() or quote_ident().
Has the patch author looked at how psql variables adds quotes, usually
like:
"\"":var"\""
It is ugly, but it seems like the clearest way.
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