Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B64B5DC21 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:52:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 55090-08 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:52:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B793EB5DC20 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:52:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id p88Eq4b02307; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:52:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201109081452.p88Eq4b02307@momjian.us> Subject: Re: createuser/dropuser username In-Reply-To: <22065.1315492831@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:52:04 -0400 (EDT) CC: Susanne Ebrecht , Robert Haas , Grzegorz Szpetkowski , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.404 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/30 X-Sequence-Number: 6951 Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Bruce Momjian 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. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +