On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 07:53:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > adrian.vondendrie...@credativ.de writes: > > [ recent pg_dump fails against an 8.4 server if "old" is used as a > > name ] > > Yeah. The reason for this is that "old" was considered a reserved > word in 8.4 and before, but since 9.0 it is not reserved (indeed it > isn't a keyword at all anymore), so 9.0 and later pg_dump don't > think they need to quote it in commands.
According to SQL:2003 and SQL:2008 (and the draft standard, if that matters) in section 5.2 of Foundation, both NEW and OLD are reserved words, so we're going to need to re-reserve them to comply. Sadly, this will cause problems for people who have tables with those names, but we've introduced incompatibilities (in 8.3, e.g.) that hit a much bigger part of our user base much harder than this. When we do re-reserve, we'll need to come up with a migration path. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
