Re: BUG #5488: pg_dump does not quote column names -> pg_restore may fail when upgrading

From: Hartmut Goebel <h(dot)goebel(at)goebel-consult(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs <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: 2010-06-13 15:43:48
Message-ID: 4C14FCB4.5080800@goebel-consult.de
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Am 11.06.2010 21:19, schrieb Robert Haas:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dimitri Fontaine

>> But of course you don't ever do that. What you do once the restore failed on
>> you is fix the schema and the application before to upgrade.
>
> Presumably, you mean that YOU don't ever do that. What everybody else
> does is up to them, and there are plenty of people on this thread
> saying either (1) they don't want to do what you're proposing or (2)
> their application doesn't need fixing because it already quotes
> everything.

and 3) the application is fixed already by somebody else (the vendor)

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