Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > The idea is that we only need quotes when there are odd characters in > the identifier. We do that right now in some places, though I can't > find them in pg_dump. I know psql does that, see quote_ident().
I think our general style rule is that identifiers embedded in messages are always double-quoted. There's an exception for type names, but not otherwise. You're confusing the message case with printing SQL. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers