Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> The idea is that we only need quotes when there are odd characters in
> the identifier. We do that right now in some places, though I can't
> find them in pg_dump. I know psql does that, see quote_ident().
I think our general style rule is that identifiers embedded in messages
are always double-quoted. There's an exception for type names, but
not otherwise. You're confusing the message case with printing SQL.
regards, tom lane