Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I make the following assumptions:
> 1) All backend references to identifiers are treated as quoted by the
> backend as mentioned in a previous thread.
> 2) Same with official clients like psql.
> 3) We don't guarantee complete backward compatibility in the system
> catalogs anyway (note that this is a trivial problem to solve if 1 above
> is solved-- schemas, views, and rules can accomplish some cool tricks
> :-) ).
None of these assumptions are acceptable, particularly not #2. In
reality #2 is a proxy for "I'm willing to break all existing clients
that look at the system catalogs". Which we're not.
regards, tom lane
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