Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Arrange for quote_identifier() and pg_dump to not quote keywords

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Arrange for quote_identifier() and pg_dump to not quote keywords
Date: 2007-06-26 15:31:31
Message-ID: 46813153.10908@dunslane.net
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> It may still be worth telling one version of Postgres about anticipated
> keywords prior to a release which adds them so that people who don't follow
> instructions and try a dump generated with an old pg_dump have a fighting
> chance. Besides, what's a person to do if they have a dump lying around?
> Restore it in an old database so they can re-dump it with the new pg_dump?
>
>

That is in fact the only thing we fairly much guarantee to work.

cheers

andrew

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