Re: pg_dump(all) --quote-all-identifiers

Robert Haas wrote:
> In response to a complaint from Hartmut Goebel:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-06/msg00018.php
> 
> And per a design proposed by Tom Lane:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-06/msg00211.php
> 
> PFA a patch to implement $SUBJECT.  One interesting aspect of this
> patch is that types like "integer" and "double precision" don't get
> quoted in the output, whereas types like "text" do.  But it turns out
> that types like "integer" and "double precision" don't *work* if
> they're quoted, so this is not a bad thing.  It might possibly be
> judged to require documentation somewhere, however.

Uh, I thought this was about quoting the identifiers.  I am confused
about why "integer" is an issue in this case.  Can you show an example?

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