Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers?

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Should pg_upgrade use --quote-all-identifiers?
Date: 2013-05-01 01:07:27
Message-ID: CAM-w4HMC3n03DhoV9LEQa+4YHudNy3v8vYw1HpDDUekKeUTAsA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Seems like this might be a good idea to avoid the type of failure
> exhibited in bug #8128. We don't care too much about the readability
> of the dump script created during an upgrade, so it's hard to see a
> downside.

Huh. I thought you were talking about quoting identifiers in an SQL
dump. But you're not, you're talking about quoting identifiers in sql
being sent to the server during the pg_dump process. Why did pg_dump
ever not quote all such identifiers?

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greg

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