

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] 
> Sent: 05 October 2003 20:41
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL Development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
> 
> 
> Strange no one complained about it until now.  I suppose that 
> is because few folks use that function _and_ upper-case 
> identifiers, as you mentioned.  We could code the proper 
> behavior, post a mention on general,  and document it in the 
> release notes, or wait for 7.5, or do nothing.

Can it wait for 7.5 (and some method of checking the libpq versions such
as Tom's PQparameterStatus() suggestion) please? We already released
pgAdmin III taking into account this behaviour in 7.4 and a change now
would not be so good for us.

Regards, Dave.

Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:35:13 +0100
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
Dave Page wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] 
> > Sent: 05 October 2003 20:41
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL Development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
> > 
> > 
> > Strange no one complained about it until now.  I suppose that 
> > is because few folks use that function _and_ upper-case 
> > identifiers, as you mentioned.  We could code the proper 
> > behavior, post a mention on general,  and document it in the 
> > release notes, or wait for 7.5, or do nothing.
> 
> Can it wait for 7.5 (and some method of checking the libpq versions such
> as Tom's PQparameterStatus() suggestion) please? We already released
> pgAdmin III taking into account this behaviour in 7.4 and a change now
> would not be so good for us.

It is something we could clearly advertise as changing in 7.5.  Wasn't
there something else we planned to change in 7.5. I forgot it.

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Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:38:41 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> It is something we could clearly advertise as changing in 7.5.

I think assuming that advertising a planned change will accomplish much
is just fooling ourselves :-(.  There'll be approximately the same
number of complaints either way, because people won't fix their code
in advance (indeed can't, unless we provide a version inquiry method
now).

I'm willing to bow to Dave's schedule-based concern about not doing
it in 7.4, though.

			regards, tom lane

Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:15:31 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > It is something we could clearly advertise as changing in 7.5.
> 
> I think assuming that advertising a planned change will accomplish much
> is just fooling ourselves :-(.  There'll be approximately the same
> number of complaints either way, because people won't fix their code
> in advance (indeed can't, unless we provide a version inquiry method
> now).
> 
> I'm willing to bow to Dave's schedule-based concern about not doing
> it in 7.4, though.

Agreed.  We can add it to TODO.  That is advertising the change.

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Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:20:19 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Agreed.  We can add it to TODO.  That is advertising the change.

I'd be inclined to put something in the SGML docs describing
PQfnumber(), also.

			regards, tom lane

Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:33:19 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers 

Added to TODO:

	* Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name


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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Agreed.  We can add it to TODO.  That is advertising the change.
> 
> I'd be inclined to put something in the SGML docs describing
> PQfnumber(), also.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 

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Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PQfnumber and quoted identifiers