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?

2007-10-08 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?

2007-09-30 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 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?

2007-09-28 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?

2007-09-22 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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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).

regards, tom lane

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

2007-09-22 Thread Brendan Jurd
I had some spare cycles so I went ahead and patched this.

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.

quote_literal doesn't seem to have any regression tests either, but I
decided to leave that for another patch.

With thanks to Neil Conway for his assistance on IRC.

Cheers
BJ

On 9/15/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has been saved for the 8.4 release:
> Brendan Jurd wrote:
> > Hi hackers,
> >
> > I note that we currently expose the usefulness of the quote_identifier
> > function to the user with quote_ident(text).
> >
> > Is there any reason we shouldn't do the same with 
> > quote_qualified_identifier?
> >
> > We could just add a quote_qualified_ident(text, text) ... it would
> > make forming dynamic queries more convenient in databases that use
> > multiple schemas.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Would be happy to cook up a patch for this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > BJ
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Index: doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
===
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.397
diff -c -r1.397 func.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/func.sgml  19 Sep 2007 03:13:57 -  1.397
--- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml  22 Sep 2007 03:07:26 -
***
*** 1276,1281 
--- 1276,1284 
  quote_ident
 
 
+ quote_qualified_ident
+
+
  quote_literal
 
 
***
*** 1541,1546 
--- 1544,1563 

  

+
quote_qualified_ident(schema
 text, identifier 
text)
+text
+
+   Return the given schema and identifier suitably quoted to be 
used as a
+   fully qualified identifier in an SQL 
statement
+   string.  Quoting is performed as for 
quote_ident,
+   but schema and 
identifier
+   are quoted separately.
+
+quote_ident('Some schema','A table')
+"Some schema"."A table"
+   
+ 
+   
 
quote_literal(string)
 text
 
Index: src/backend/utils/adt/quote.c
===
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/quote.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -c -r1.22 quote.c
*** src/backend/utils/adt/quote.c   27 Feb 2007 23:48:08 -  1.22
--- src/backend/utils/adt/quote.c   22 Sep 2007 03:07:26 -
***
*** 46,51 
--- 46,77 
  }
  
  /*
+  * quote_qualified_ident -
+  *returns a properly quoted, schema-qualified identifier
+  */
+ Datum
+ quote_qualified_ident(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+ {
+   text*schema = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0);
+   text*ident = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(1);
+   text*result;
+   const char  *quoted;
+   char*schema_s;
+   char*ident_s;
+ 
+   schema_s = DatumGetCString(DirectFunctionCall1(textout, 
+   
   PointerGetDatum(schema)));
+   ident_s = DatumGetCString(DirectFunctionCall1(textout, 
+   
  PointerGetDatum(ident)));
+ 
+   quoted = quote_qualified_identifier(schema_s, ident_s);
+ 
+   result = DatumGetTextP(DirectFunctionCall1(textin, 
+   
   CStringGetDatum(quoted)));
+   PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(result);
+ }
+ 
+ /*
   * quote_literal -
   *  returns a properly quoted literal
   *
Index: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.471
diff -c -r1.471 pg_proc.h
*** src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h   20 Sep 2007 17:56:32 -  1.471
--- src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h   22 Sep 2007 03:07:34 -
***
*** 2630,2639 
  DATA(insert OID = 1768 ( to_char  PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 f f 
t f s 2  25 "1186 25" _null_ _null_ _null_  interval_to_char - _null_ _null_ ));
  DESCR("format interval to text");
  
! DATA(insert OID =  1282 ( quote_identPGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 f f t f i