Re: Why format() adds double quote?

2016-01-26 23:40 GMT-02:00 Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>:
>> Thanks for advocate, I see here that it even produces that output with
>> simple spaces.
>>
>> postgres=# create table x ("aí      " text);
>> CREATE TABLE
>> postgres=# \d x
>>         Tabela "public.x"
>>   Coluna  | Tipo | Modificadores
>> ----------+------+---------------
>>  aí       | text |
>>
>>
>> This will break copy&paste user actions and scripts that parses that output.
>>
>> Maybe the patch should consider left/right non-printable chars to
>> choose whether to show or not the " ?
>
> This is a totally different story from the topic discussed in this
> thread. psql never adds double quotations to column name even with
> upper case col names.

Indeed, you are right.

> If you want to change the existing psql's behavior, propose it
> yourself.

It could be interesting, maybe using a \pset quote_columns_char, I'll
think about, thank you.

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