Bruce Momjian writes: > I see pg_dump using the same rules that I am proposing:
Which makes my point. > To me quoting the table name is like quoting the name of a section > heading (which people don't do), The message style guidelines specify that you should always quote a %s if it might contain characters that would cause confusion about where the plugged-in value starts and ends, and that you quote every %s the same way, because when the user reads the value, the user just wants to recognize the value and does not care about whether the value might in some context be an SQL identifier or who knows what. When you write section titles, you know the titles ahead of time, so you don't need to guard against confusion. > You were suggesting no quotes at all. Would this display be OK? > > test=> \d "xx y" > Table public.xx y No, that doesn't work. Either we write it in proper SQL terms, that is public."xx y" or we write it in human terms, that is Table "xx y" (Schema "public") (or some variation). What I'm trying to say is, since we're addressing humans, we should use the human terms. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
