Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Uh, I did some digging after this email report and found it does need
> some cleanup, which is done in the attached patch.
> It removes quoting for table references in clusterdb and index/table
> references in reindexdb,
Uh, surely that breaks things. Or did you miss my statement that the
current behavior is what is intended?
> and adds a general documentation overview about
> when case is preserved and suggests quoting, and adds documentation
> where special quoting happens.
I don't find the documentation changes to be improvements either.
Possibly instead of
> ! Specifies the default tablespace for the database (double-quoted internally).
you could do something like
Specifies the default tablespace for the database. (This name
is not subject to case-folding.)
> + <para>
> + When specified on the command line, user and databases names have
> + their case preserved — the presence of spaces or special
> + characters might require quoting. Table names and other identifiers
> + do not have their case preserved, except where documented, and
> + might require quoting.
> + </para>
This latter sentence is just plain wrong.
regards, tom lane