| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: quoting psql varible as identifier |
| Date: | 2010-01-19 18:46:39 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f071001191046o6e63189cv9ec08941e0c8a5cd@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Updated patch attached. I still think this is a bizarre API.
>
> Well, if we had it to do over I'm sure we'd have done it differently,
> but the functions are there now and we aren't going to change them ...
I agree, but I don't feel the need to repeat the mistakes we've
already made by slavishly copying them into new places. I think as
long as we're adding a new function, we should make it behave sanely.
We could even take the opportunity to go back and add a saner version
of PQescapeStringConn.
...Robert
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