Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Huh. I thought you were talking about quoting identifiers in an SQL
> dump. But you're not, you're talking about quoting identifiers in sql
> being sent to the server during the pg_dump process. Why did pg_dump
> ever not quote all such identifiers?
Well, readability of those commands is worth something too, but in any
case the short answer is that pg_dump has only one quote-an-identifier
function, not different ones for server commands and final output.
regards, tom lane