Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 13:56:08 -0400
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 13:43, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >So other than the shortlived 6.2 release, releases before 6.5 had the
> >behavior Peter wants.  I find it interesting that it took more than a
> >year for anyone to notice that the putative dequoting+downcasing logic
> >installed for 6.3 didn't work.
> >
> pgAdmin3 beta testers found it...
> 
> If you change it, please give me a chance to code it version-aware so 
> quoting/non-quoting can be performed dependent on libpq in use.

Is there a reason why it can't accecpt both formats?  That way PQfname
and PQfnumber could be inverses of each other.  The only wart is that
PQfnumber would also accecpt the "\"Bar\"" format also.