I remember a thread about pretty-print functions. Are those used? This
is probably the best place to put the fix, since they already munge
things for display purposes.
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 21:33, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> It should be done, otherwise you cannot copy and paste foreign key
> creation code from the psql output :)
>
> Chris
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I can do that for 7.6. Is it worth it? Is it a TODO?
> >
> >
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> >
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >
> >>>As a result of the constraint output functions being shared between
> >>>pg_dump and psql, some of the output is mis-quoted in the display area
> >>>for columns including quotes. Notice it's correct in the table Column
> >>>list, but the constraint has the escaped versions.
> >>
> >>It's misquoted because psql DOES NOT share the fmtId function with
> >>pg_dump. It simply puts double quotes around it. If you can fix psql
> >>so that it is able to link to the fmtId function, then you can easily
> >>fix the problem.
> >>
> >>Chris
> >>
> >>
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> >