| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Hartmut Goebel <h(dot)goebel(at)goebel-consult(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5488: pg_dump does not quote column names -> pg_restore may fail when upgrading |
| Date: | 2010-06-04 18:59:48 |
| Message-ID: | 201006041859.o54IxmS02431@momjian.us |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Hartmut Goebel <h(dot)goebel(at)goebel-consult(dot)de> wrote:
>
> > The application already quotes all column names :-) It's using a
> > generic framework which does not (and must not) rely on column
> > names being non-keywords.
>
> Same here. I suspect that this is much more commonn than many
> PostgreSQL developers realize; and I think it makes a reasonable
> case for at least an *option* to quote all identifiers emitted by
> pg_dump.
Even if we quote them in the dump, I assume applications would need to
quote them too, which I doubt many do.
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