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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: createuser/dropuser username
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:52:04 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> >>> It removes quoting for table references in clusterdb and index/table
> >>> references in reindexdb,
> 
> >> Uh, surely that breaks things.  Or did you miss my statement that the
> >> current behavior is what is intended?
> 
> > I saw that, but how is that consistent with other command-line tools? 
> > What is the logic that has some tools preserve case and others not?
> 
> If there are any that fail to preserve case, those are the ones to be
> fixed.  Making the working ones match the broken ones is not the correct
> direction.

I started going in that direction and stopped because of this example
in our docs:

        vacuumdb --analyze --verbose --table 'foo(bar)' xyzzy

Ideas?

> 
> > Really?  Pg_dump doesn't preserve case for table names:
> 
> > 	pg_dump -t Test test
> 
> pg_dump is a special case because the arguments are patterns to match,
> not fixed names.

OK.

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