Re: \copy and identifier quoting

Tom Lane wrote:
> Isn't this a bug?
> 
> regression=# create table FOO (f1 int);
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# \copy FOO from stdin
> ERROR:  Relation "FOO" does not exist
> \copy: ERROR:  Relation "FOO" does not exist
> regression=#
> 
> This happens because \copy takes the given table name and slaps
> double quotes around it, so the backend gets COPY "FOO" ...
> rather than COPY FOO ...
> 
> It seems to me that psql's \copy should interpret the table name
> the same way that a regular SQL command would: honor double quotes,
> downcase in the absence of quotes.
> 
> Comments, objections?

Yes, that makes perfect sense.

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