Search Postgresql Archives

psql and Postgres 7.2

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



In answering a question on SO I discovered this:

\l PRODUCTION
                                List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------------
 production | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |

\c PRODUCTION
FATAL:  database "PRODUCTION" does not exist
Previous connection kept

which I traced back to(from Postgres version 14):

src/bin/psql/command.c

/*
 * Read and interpret an argument to the \connect slash command.
...

/*
  * Ideally we should treat the arguments as SQL identifiers.  But for
  * backwards compatibility with 7.2 and older pg_dump files, we have to
  * take unquoted arguments verbatim (don't downcase them). For now,
  * double-quoted arguments may be stripped of double quotes (as if SQL
  * identifiers).  By 7.4 or so, pg_dump files can be expected to
  * double-quote all mixed-case \connect arguments, and then we can get rid
  * of OT_SQLIDHACK.
*/

Since Postgres 14 pg_dump only goes back to 8.0 and the \d commands in psql go back to 7.4, is this something that needs to hang on?

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx





[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Postgresql Jobs]     [Postgresql Admin]     [Postgresql Performance]     [Linux Clusters]     [PHP Home]     [PHP on Windows]     [Kernel Newbies]     [PHP Classes]     [PHP Databases]     [Postgresql & PHP]     [Yosemite]

  Powered by Linux