Re: quoting psql varible as identifier

2010/1/5 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't have a problem to write second and safe fmtId
>>> function (with technique used in dumputils don't need to modify
>>> libpq), although fmtId do exactly what I need. I would to understand
>>> to behave.
>
>> I think you mean that you would need to understand how it should
>> behave - in which case I agree, but I think  Tom spelled that out
>> pretty clearly upthread: close PQescapeStringConn and adapt it to be
>> PQescapeIdentifier.
>
> The more important point here is that fmtId doesn't do "exactly what you
> need" in any case.  fmtId is safe to use in pg_dump because pg_dump is
> only expected to work with the same or older version of the backend.
> It would not be safe to use it in libpq, which is expected to still work
> with newer backends that might have more reserved words.

So I finnaly moved to libpq PQescapeIdentConn function

patch is attached.


regards

Pavel


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>                        regards, tom lane
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