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

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Hartmut Goebel <h(dot)goebel(at)goebel-consult(dot)de>
Subject: Re: pg_dump(all) --quote-all-identifiers
Date: 2010-06-14 10:57:39
Message-ID: 201006141057.o5EAvd729441@momjian.us
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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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