Re: Description of disallowed characters in quoted identifiers is incomplete

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: psimbo(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Description of disallowed characters in quoted identifiers is incomplete
Date: 2025-07-22 09:02:24
Message-ID: c4fd3cdde64ad7f8e007fbf7a888a11e1cd42b2a.camel@cybertec.at
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On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 19:58 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-syntax-lexical.html
> Description:
>
> Section 4.1.1 of the documentation claims that "Quoted identifiers can
> contain any character, except the character with code zero." However
> according to line 105 in src/test/isolation/specscanner.l in the PostgreSQL
> source code, new line characters are also disallowed.

psql (18beta2)
Type "help" for help.

test=> CREATE TABLE "new
line" ();
CREATE TABLE
test=> \dt new*
List of tables
Schema │ Name │ Type │ Owner
═════════╪════════╪═══════╪═════════
laurenz │ new ↵│ table │ laurenz
│ line │ │
laurenz │ newtab │ table │ laurenz
(2 rows)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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