| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump output portability |
| Date: | 2002-08-15 19:29:56 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208152126500.20055-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> Ah. But where exactly will you substitute true for 't'? I don't think
> pg_dump necessarily knows enough to apply that transformation.
Sure, it does it already for other types. Look for BITOID in pg_dump.c.
> Switching the default is definitely fine with me, but I'd lean towards
> ripping it out entirely, given that the backend-supplied chunks of stuff
> are not going to have extra quotes. We always tell people "always quote
> or never quote" a given identifier; pg_dump scripts ought to follow that
> rule.
It occurred to me that pg_dump would need to know which names are
keywords. Ugh.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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