Re: info about patch: using parametrised query in psql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: info about patch: using parametrised query in psql
Date: 2009-12-25 19:30:36
Message-ID: 8700.1261769436@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Works for me. One small problem discussed upthread is that there
> currently doesn't appear to be a libpq function that does
> ident-quoting. I'm thinking that we will need to add one to make this
> work - is that going to be a problem?

The rules for ident-quoting are simple and haven't changed over the
years, so we don't really *need* a libpq function for it. OTOH you
could argue it's inconsistent that we have one and not the other.

> I'm thinking that since we're
> just adding a function it won't force an uncomfortable major-version
> bump on libpq.

Yeah, we have taken the position in the past that adding new functions
doesn't require a soname bump.

regards, tom lane

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