Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>I'd like to see pg_dump use this mechanism for quoting, at least for
>>function bodies. I guess it could retrieve the text and then keep
>>generating delimiters until it found one that didn't occur inside the
>>text.
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>Right, that was what I had in mind.
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great

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>>Maybe for that purpose we could allow underscores as well as
>>letters - I don't think that should introduce any extra ambiguities.
>>Alternatively, or as well, maybe leading and trailing digits could be
>>disallowed, but embedded digits could be allowed. IOW let's be as
>>liberal as possible without breaking things.
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><shrug> I'd prefer to keep the rules as simple as possible. No
>particular objection to underscores, but allowing digits in only some
>places seems confusing.
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We already do - you can't begin an identifier with a digit. I'm not
dogmatic about it, though. I'd be more than happy with just what you
proposed.

cheers

andrew