Re: Schema version management

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Vik Reykja <vikreykja(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Schema version management
Date: 2012-07-10 21:55:09
Message-ID: CABUevEzPnzP+xAzSdmLXz95ghRip=+jNGqQadCMQT_YiyC243Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On sön, 2012-07-08 at 18:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> > On lör, 2012-07-07 at 17:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Sure. You need not look further than "/" to find an operator name
>> that
>> >> absolutely *will* cause trouble if it's dumped into a filename
>> >> literally.
>>
>> > But that problem applies to all object names.
>>
>> In principle, yes, but in practice it's far more likely that operators
>> will have names requiring some sort of encoding than that objects with
>> SQL-identifier names will.
>
> I'm not sure. The only character that's certainly an issue is "/". Are
> there any others on file systems that we want to support?

\ and : if we care at all about windows....

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