Re: How to extract a value from a record using attnum or attname?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Why not use quote_identifier and quote_literal_cstr instead of
> this new strcpy thing?

We've got various types of software that will be parsing these
payloads, and it's a little easier to parse if the quoting is
unconditional. If that's a barrier to acceptance we could use
the functions which quote conditionally and adjust our regular
expressions.

Probably one reason we had a bias toward quoting is that every
single application table name we use has at least on uppercase
letter and about 95% of our column names do.

> Also, you don't really need spi.h do you?

It's using these functions:

SPI_getrelname
SPI_fname
SPI_getvalue

If there's a better way to get the info, I'm game.

-Kevin