2009/12/28 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> Works for me. One small problem discussed upthread is that there >>>> currently doesn't appear to be a libpq function that does >>>> ident-quoting. I'm thinking that we will need to add one to make this >>>> work - is that going to be a problem? >>> >>> The rules for ident-quoting are simple and haven't changed over the >>> years, so we don't really *need* a libpq function for it. OTOH you >>> could argue it's inconsistent that we have one and not the other. >> >> Yeah. Plus it seems like a useful thing to have, anyway. >> >>>> I'm thinking that since we're >>>> just adding a function it won't force an uncomfortable major-version >>>> bump on libpq. >>> >>> Yeah, we have taken the position in the past that adding new functions >>> doesn't require a soname bump. >> >> Good. > > So it seems we have agreement on a new direction for this work. We > will not add the \pexec option Pavel proposed as part of this patch; > instead, we will consider a patch that makes :'foo' and :"foo" do > literal and identifier quoting of the corresponding value. Based on > this, I am marking the existing patch as Returned with Feedback, since > what is needed here will amount to a totally base of code, and we can > consider the revised patch if any for whichever CommitFest is open at > the time that patch is submitted.
ok Pavel > > Thanks, > > ...Robert > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
