From: | Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname |
Date: | 2021-11-05 14:58:15 |
Message-ID: | F482826F-B33D-4D36-ABF5-7BA6A498591B@enterprisedb.com |
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> On Nov 5, 2021, at 6:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>> I think it would appropriate to normalize identifiers that are going to
>> be stored in catalogs. As presented, this is a bit ridiculous and I see
>> no reason to continue to support it.
>
> If we had any sort of convention about the encoding of identifiers stored
> in shared catalogs, maybe we could do something about that. But we don't,
> so any change is inevitably going to break someone's use-case.
I only started the discussion about normalization to demonstrate that existing behavior does not require it.
> In any case, that seems quite orthogonal to the question of how to treat
> names with too many dots in them.
Agreed.
> Considering we are three days out from
> freezing 14.1, I think it is time to stop the meandering discussion and
> fix it.
Agreed.
> And by "fix", I mean revert to the pre-14 behavior.
That's one solution. The patch I posted on October 20, and rebased two days ago, has not received any negative feedback. If you want to revert to pre-14 behavior for 14.1, do you oppose the patch going in for v15? (I'm not taking a position here, just asking what you'd prefer.)
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Mark Dilger
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