Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [2004-03-04 11:24:11 -0500]:
>
> <snip>
> > Double quotes are for names (identifiers). Single quotes are
> > for string literals (constants).
>
> BTW: is this general SQL syntax or just PostgeSQL ?

We follow the SQL standard on this, and I think most other vendors do as
well.

> mysql does no distinction (which is IMHO very unclean), and it gets
> even worse since mysqldump's output does it exactly the wrong way:
> identifiers in '' and string constants in "" ...

That is pretty amazing.

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