On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:59:48PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  
> > > The application already quotes all column names :-) It's using a
> > > generic framework which does not (and must not) rely on column
> > > names being non-keywords.
> >  
> > Same here.  I suspect that this is much more commonn than many
> > PostgreSQL developers realize; and I think it makes a reasonable
> > case for at least an *option* to quote all identifiers emitted by
> > pg_dump.
> 
> Even if we quote them in the dump, I assume applications would need
> to quote them too, which I doubt many do.

It seems like something that's doable by pg_dump as a "default off"
option.  TODO for 9.1?

Cheers,
David.
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