Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > I'd like to see pg_dump use this mechanism for quoting, at least for
> > function bodies. I guess it could retrieve the text and then keep
> > generating delimiters until it found one that didn't occur inside the
> > text.
>
> Right, that was what I had in mind.
>
> > Maybe for that purpose we could allow underscores as well as
> > letters - I don't think that should introduce any extra ambiguities.
> > Alternatively, or as well, maybe leading and trailing digits could be
> > disallowed, but embedded digits could be allowed. IOW let's be as
> > liberal as possible without breaking things.
>
> <shrug> I'd prefer to keep the rules as simple as possible. No
> particular objection to underscores, but allowing digits in only some
> places seems confusing.

Yep. If we can do C indentifiers (no digits to start), fine, if not, we
just have to disallow them.

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