Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> > Uh, I did some digging after this email report and found it does need
> > some cleanup, which is done in the attached patch.
>
> > It removes quoting for table references in clusterdb and index/table
> > references in reindexdb,
>
> Uh, surely that breaks things. Or did you miss my statement that the
> current behavior is what is intended?
>
> > and adds a general documentation overview about
> > when case is preserved and suggests quoting, and adds documentation
> > where special quoting happens.
>
> I don't find the documentation changes to be improvements either.
> Possibly instead of
>
> > ! Specifies the default tablespace for the database (double-quoted
> > internally).
>
> you could do something like
>
> Specifies the default tablespace for the database. (This name
> is not subject to case-folding.)
Actually, that is inaccurate. When we call PQconnectdbParams() with
username/database names, or call fmtId(), we are doing more than
preserving case. We are also preserving whitespace and special
characters. I can make the new text:
(This name is processed as a double-quoted identifier.)
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