Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Brendan Jurd wrote:
 On 9/29/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I think we need more than one person's request to add this function.
 
 Well, I don't expect it would get requested.  Most DBAs would likely
 look for the function in the docs, see it's not there and then just
 implement it themselves.  Obviously it's not critical.  But
 anticipating those little requirements and providing for them is one
 of the things that makes a piece of software a pleasure to use.
 Batteries included and all that.

I was just looking for someone else to say Yea, I would like that too.

 Anyway, I seem to be flogging a horse which, if not dead, is surely
 mortally wounded.  If quote_qualified_ident isn't desired, perhaps you
 can still use the regression test I included for quote_ident in the
 patch.  The test is functional as a standalone item, and seems to fill
 a gap.

Well, we don't test everything and I don't remember problems in quoting
in the past, at least not enough to add another test.

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-10-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian escribió:
 Brendan Jurd wrote:
  On 9/29/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I think we need more than one person's request to add this function.
  
  Well, I don't expect it would get requested.  Most DBAs would likely
  look for the function in the docs, see it's not there and then just
  implement it themselves.  Obviously it's not critical.  But
  anticipating those little requirements and providing for them is one
  of the things that makes a piece of software a pleasure to use.
  Batteries included and all that.
 
 I was just looking for someone else to say Yea, I would like that too.

Probably pgsql-hackers is not the best place to ask.

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-09-30 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 9/29/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I think we need more than one person's request to add this function.

Well, I don't expect it would get requested.  Most DBAs would likely
look for the function in the docs, see it's not there and then just
implement it themselves.  Obviously it's not critical.  But
anticipating those little requirements and providing for them is one
of the things that makes a piece of software a pleasure to use.
Batteries included and all that.

Anyway, I seem to be flogging a horse which, if not dead, is surely
mortally wounded.  If quote_qualified_ident isn't desired, perhaps you
can still use the regression test I included for quote_ident in the
patch.  The test is functional as a standalone item, and seems to fill
a gap.

Thanks for your time,
BJ

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-09-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote:
 Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Patch includes documentation and new regression tests.  While I was in
  there I also added regression tests for quote_ident(), which appeared
  to be absent.
 
 This seems rather pointless, since it's equivalent to
   quote_ident(schemaname) || '.' || quote_ident(relname).

Has anyone every asked for this functionality?

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-09-28 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 9/29/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Has anyone every asked for this functionality?

I searched the list archives for previous mentions of the topic, and
didn't find any.  So the answer to your question is yes, but so far
it seems to be just me.

Cheers,
BJ

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Patch includes documentation and new regression tests.  While I was in
 there I also added regression tests for quote_ident(), which appeared
 to be absent.

This seems rather pointless, since it's equivalent to
quote_ident(schemaname) || '.' || quote_ident(relname).

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Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Add function for quote_qualified_identifier?

2007-09-22 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 9/23/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 This seems rather pointless, since it's equivalent to
 quote_ident(schemaname) || '.' || quote_ident(relname).

Yes it is, and I brought that up in the OP:

I wrote:
 Clearly a DBA could just create this function himself in SQL (and it
 wouldn't be difficult), but is that a good reason not to have it in
 our standard set of functions?

But since nobody arced up about it I thought I might as well move
things along and produce a patch.

Many of the functions provided by postgres are easy to write yourself.
 That doesn't mean they shouldn't be there.  After all, there is
*exactly* one way to do quote_qualified_ident.  Why require every DBA
who needs this functionality to go through the motions?

I'll admit that it's a minor improvement, but that seems reasonable
given it has a miniscule cost.

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