Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: "Matthew C(dot) Aycock" <matt(at)mathcs(dot)emory(dot)edu>
Cc: hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump
Date: 1998-10-02 05:00:04
Message-ID: 36145DD4.757F1092@alumni.caltech.edu
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> After looking at the code for pg_dump, it appears that all identifiers
> go through fmtId which does as you thougt, it looks to see if a character
> is non-lower case, a digit, or an '_' then it double quotes it.
> I am going to change this behavior to always double quote it and see
> if it breaks anything.

I've already got patches to do the double-quote thing, with a command
line option (-n) to recover the old behavior. Will commit that, so you
will only need to do the memory leak stuff. Or would you prefer that I
send you my patches and you can integrate them?

- Tom

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