Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname
Date: 2021-11-05 14:37:33
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZfQZnmDR2_=smQAc3hUfSrO+=kUk9Auoh8qEo5YmX8BA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:59 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> In any case, that seems quite orthogonal to the question of how to treat
> names with too many dots in them. Considering we are three days out from
> freezing 14.1, I think it is time to stop the meandering discussion and
> fix it. And by "fix", I mean revert to the pre-14 behavior.

I do not think that there is consensus on that proposal.

And FWIW, I still oppose it. It's debatable whether this even
qualifies as a bug in the first place, and even more debatable whether
accepting and ignoring arbitrary garbage is the right solution.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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