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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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