Re: quoting psql varible as identifier

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I'd like to proceed by committing an initial patch which changes the
>> "Escaping Strings for Inclusion in SQL Commands" to use a
>> <variablelist> with one <varlistentry> per function (as we do in
>> surrounding functions) and consolidates it with the following section,
>>  "Escaping Binary Strings for Inclusion in SQL Commands".  Then I'll
>> submit a patch implementing pqEscapeLiteral() and pqEscapeIdentifier()
>> as discussed here, and the doc diff hunks will actually be readable.
>
> Sounds like a plan.

Initial commit done, and follow-on patch attached. The docs took
longer to write than the code. I spent a fair amount of time trying
to make it all make sense, but suggestions are welcome.

...Robert