On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:
> > This is not a bogosity if you read and understand the psql grammar.
>
> In other words, you have (by fiat and with no discussion AFAIR) decided
> to change psql's "grammar" so that its handling of names is inconsistent
> with the backend's. That might be OK if psql were an independent
> product, but it's not. There are already enough discrepancies between
> parsing of backslash commands and parsing of SQL commands; do we need
> to add more?
I have written so many requests for comments on psql, I don't know. This
handling of names was nowhere documented, so I couldn't have known it. On
the other hand, the current behaviour is documented and consistent with
something at least. I totally see what you're saying and I'm going to try
to address it. But there was noone who said anything about this so far.
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