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author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-09-10 16:39:02 -0400 |
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committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-09-10 16:39:02 -0400 |
commit | d68ccf536e950a07b5a7030bf609936fe65aab51 (patch) | |
tree | e368f820c32742c6747a1f33b1b0ae746e683be0 /doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml | |
parent | 52ce20589a8bac4eccaea043b1fe283daaf4f9e3 (diff) | |
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Remove double-quoting of table names in clusterdb. BACKWARD COMPABILITY
BREAKAGE.
Remove double-quoting of index/table names in reindexdb. BACKWARD
COMPABILITY BREAKAGE.
Document thate user/database names are preserved with double-quoting by
command-line tools like vacuumdb.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml index 9ae80005cdf..5fd6410991d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml @@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of where the database server resides. </para> + + <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> </partintro> &clusterdb; |