Re: info about patch: using parametrised query in psql

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Works for me.  One small problem discussed upthread is that there
>> currently doesn't appear to be a libpq function that does
>> ident-quoting.  I'm thinking that we will need to add one to make this
>> work - is that going to be a problem?
>
> The rules for ident-quoting are simple and haven't changed over the
> years, so we don't really *need* a libpq function for it.  OTOH you
> could argue it's inconsistent that we have one and not the other.

Yeah.  Plus it seems like a useful thing to have, anyway.

>> I'm thinking that since we're
>> just adding a function it won't force an uncomfortable major-version
>> bump on libpq.
>
> Yeah, we have taken the position in the past that adding new functions
> doesn't require a soname bump.

Good.

...Robert