At 19:55 3/10/00 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>I think that pg_dump should not quote identifiers that only contain
>lower-case letters and underscores. That will make it easier to move
>dumps to other database products, because PostgreSQL is off the spec in
>matters case folding in identifiers. But it's just an idea; if the
>performance hit would be too high, forget it.
In something like pg_dump, I don't really think performance when dumping
metadata is an issue when you consider the cost of dumping actual data.
But to deal with the quoting issue, have you tried '-n' - I think it
basically turns off non-essential quoting.
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