Re: pg_dump output portability

Tom Lane writes:

> Ah.  But where exactly will you substitute true for 't'?  I don't think
> pg_dump necessarily knows enough to apply that transformation.

Sure, it does it already for other types.  Look for BITOID in pg_dump.c.

> Switching the default is definitely fine with me, but I'd lean towards
> ripping it out entirely, given that the backend-supplied chunks of stuff
> are not going to have extra quotes.  We always tell people "always quote
> or never quote" a given identifier; pg_dump scripts ought to follow that
> rule.

It occurred to me that pg_dump would need to know which names are
keywords.  Ugh.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net