Re: BUG #5488: pg_dump does not quote column names -> pg_restore may fail when upgrading

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié jun 09 21:10:21 -0400 2010:
>
> > I think users would rather have the restore fail, and know right away
> > they have an issue, than to do the upgrade, and find out later that some
> > of their application queries fail and they need to run around fixing
> > them.  (FYI, pg_upgrade would use the new pg_dump and would not fail.)
>
> I think it is quite a stretch to consider this a feature.

How about "a desireable behavior considering the alternatives"?

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