[postgis-users] Quoting column names in MapServer PostGIS Support

[Adrian Custer]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:35, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> It depends somewhat on whether you will only every access the database
> via the name substitution interface, or whether you might also query the
> from another program. I implemented a postgresql interface in R and
> initially did some name translation (R traditionally uses "." as a
> separator and I substituted them with "_"). 

I presume you understand that the underscore is an operator?


a_c(1,2,3,4) 

is the same as 

a <- c(1,2,3,4)

so that substitution might be a tad dangerous.

:-)

-adrian