On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 3:53 PM Bryn Llewellyn <b...@yugabyte.com> wrote:
>
> (3) The PG doc on quote_ident says this in large friendly letters:
>
> Quotes are added only if necessary…
>
>
> Notice "only". I now know that this is very much not the case. You can
> compose an effectively unlimited number of different examples along these
> lines:
>
>
> *select quote_ident('redaktør'); → "redaktør"create table redaktør(n int);
> → table successfully created*
>
>
Yep, and that is precisely what would make for a good bug report. Pointing
out that "if necessary" does not indeed match up with the behavior.
I suspect it is likely to get changed - everything else being discussed
just detracts attention from it.
David J.
