| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers |
| Date: | 2003-10-05 18:26:48 |
| Message-ID: | 8636.1065378408@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Since this behavior was undocumented and no one had noticed it in the last
>> 10 years, I think we can away with removing it.
> I agree. I would never expect to add quotes to a C string to preserve
> case (outside SQL), and the fact that PQfname doesn't return the string
> in quotes is another inconsistency.
Actually I was planning to quiz you about the history. I can see from
the CVS logs that you installed all the patches that added the
quoting/downcasing behavior. Was there any discussion about it?
I dug through the mail archives and found
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/1997-05/msg00081.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/1997-05/msg00023.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/1997-11/msg00170.php
but I could not find any actual discussion about whether there was a
real bug or whether the complainants should be told to fix their code.
regards, tom lane
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