On 9 June 2010 17:52, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>>> Why not? Surely we can restrict EXPLAIN's set of key names to be safe. >> >>> It seems to me that it would be easy for a future patch to break this >>> by accident. >> >> Really? What likely key names would be in need of quoting? I can't >> imagine accepting a field name that contains punctuation or leading >> or trailing whitespace, for example. > > It seemed to me, in particular, that someone might use a # symbol, > like "# of Iterations". >
Then the resulting XML tagname would be invalid too I think they would soon realise/be told that it was a bad idea. Dean -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
