Re: [HACKERS] fmtId() and pg_dump

2002-07-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Neil Conway writes: > My suggestion is: since fmtId() is almost always used with > appendPQExpBuffer(), we should add a wrapper function to pg_dump > that accepts an extra escape sequence (%S, or %i, perhaps), which > would properly quote the input string before passing it to > appendPQExpBuffer(

Re: [HACKERS] fmtId() and pg_dump

2002-07-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Interesting idea. Not sure how you are going to do that since appendPQExpBuffer uses vsnprintf. Would you spin through the format string and modify the pointers sent to vsnprintf? Seems like a lot of work. FYI, the 7.2 code had fmtId called pretty messed up in certain places but I think I fix