Re: "[" is a nuisance...

"Michael J. Conroy" <m_j_conroy@yahoo.com> writes:
> I'm using the PostreSQL30 ODBC driver to hook a Windows app to a 7.4.1
> PostreSQL DB.  Might be the driver, or it might be the app itself (I don't
> have access to the app), but I'm getting this coming across the wire:

> SELECT * FROM [PARTID];

IIRC there is some database (likely Microsoft but I don't recall for
sure) that uses this syntax to quote identifiers --- that is, the
SQL-standard spelling of this query would be

  SELECT * FROM "PARTID";

> Is there any way for postmaster to filter this out?  If not, is there anyway
> for the ODBC driver to filter this out (in the event the driver itself isn't
> actually generating this) short of ripping open the source?

The PG ODBC driver certainly isn't generating it.  I dunno if there is
any existing code in that driver to do such a conversion --- try asking
on the pgsql-odbc list.

            regards, tom lane