pgman wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > The following patch fixes all of these, and it will be in 7.3.
> >
> > It will? Kindly explain what the heck this is doing. It looks to
> > me like it will probably break more cases than it fixes. AFAICS
> > it's just completely muddying the waters about what is quoted and
> > what isn't ...
>
> Well, the waters were already muddy. Doing a pg_dump -Ft, you will see
> with the old code how the tags for functions had quotes, and how the
> GRANT/REVOKE has quotes for table names, while the CREATE TABLE tags for
> these do not. This fixes that, and tries to get the -P string they
> enter for pg_restore to match the tag by removing spaces.
In summary, the tags stored by pg_dump should _not_ have quotes.
Function names and GRANT/REVOKE were coming out with quotes around them
in pg_dump -Ft format. This does not change the ASCII output, which is
always quoted.
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