From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 14:26:48 -0400
Message-ID: <8636.1065378408@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310051758.h95HwL212741@candle.pha.pa.us>
References: <200310051758.h95HwL212741@candle.pha.pa.us>
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Since this behavior was undocumented and no one had noticed it in the last
>> 10 years, I think we can away with removing it.
> I agree. I would never expect to add quotes to a C string to preserve
> case (outside SQL), and the fact that PQfname doesn't return the string
> in quotes is another inconsistency.
Actually I was planning to quiz you about the history. I can see from
the CVS logs that you installed all the patches that added the
quoting/downcasing behavior. Was there any discussion about it?
I dug through the mail archives and found
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/1997-05/msg00081.phphttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/1997-05/msg00023.phphttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/1997-11/msg00170.php
but I could not find any actual discussion about whether there was a
real bug or whether the complainants should be told to fix their code.
regards, tom lane
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