Dear all,

I tried to look at some tables created by another tool whose name starts
with a number (e.g. 100_something) with pgAdmin III 1.2.0. Doing this
raises a PostgreSQL syntax error. I traced the cause to the needsQuoting
function in src/utils/misc.cpp. According to the PostgreSQL
documentation SQL identifiers are to be quoted if they don't start with
a-z or an underbar, in particular numbers as first characters are not
allowed. Attached you will find a patch which fixes this.

Cheers,

Alex

--- src/utils/misc.cpp.orig 2005-01-06 19:29:42.000000000 +1100
+++ src/utils/misc.cpp 2005-01-06 19:31:23.000000000 +1100
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
while (pos < (int)value.length())
{
wxChar c=value.GetChar(pos);
- if (!(c >= '0' && c <= '9') &&
+ if (!((pos > 0) && (c >= '0' && c <= '9')) &&
!(c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') &&
!(c == '_'))
{


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Alexander Borkowski wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried to look at some tables created by another tool whose name starts
> with a number (e.g. 100_something) with pgAdmin III 1.2.0. Doing this
> raises a PostgreSQL syntax error. I traced the cause to the needsQuoting
> function in src/utils/misc.cpp. According to the PostgreSQL
> documentation SQL identifiers are to be quoted if they don't start with
> a-z or an underbar, in particular numbers as first characters are not
> allowed. Attached you will find a patch which fixes this.

Good catch, thanks for reporting. Fix applied to CVS

Regards,
Andreas

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