Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2011/2/5 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> The reason that we use quotes in CREATE DATABASE is that encoding names
>> aren't assumed to be valid SQL identifiers. If this patch isn't
>> following the CREATE DATABASE precedent, it's the patch that's wrong,
>> not CREATE DATABASE.
> What about SET client_encoding TO encoding?
SET is in its own little world --- it will interchangeably take names
with or without quotes. It is not a precedent to follow elsewhere.
regards, tom lane