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Fixes #6481.

When an index (or exclusion constraint) column name requires quoting — e.g. it contains a double quote or other special characters — the column was not shown in the Properties panel, and editing reported it as empty.

Root cause: the is_exp (expression) flag is computed as pg_get_indexdef(...) = a.attname. pg_get_indexdef() returns the SQL-quoted identifier (e.g. "col""x") while a.attname is the raw name (col"x). For any name needing quoting these never match, so a plain column was misclassified as an expression and dropped.

Fix: compare against pg_catalog.quote_ident(a.attname), which yields the same quoted form as pg_get_indexdef() for both normal and special names. Real expression indexes (where attname is NULL) still evaluate as expressions.

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  • indexes/sql/11_plus/column_details.sql, indexes/sql/default/column_details.sql, exclusion_constraint/sql/default/get_constraint_cols.sql
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of quoted database identifiers in indexes and constraints.
    • Preserved mixed-case names, reserved words, and identifiers containing embedded double quotes.
    • Improved distinction between indexed columns and expressions.
    • Corrected identifier escaping in table and constraint operations.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for quoted column names, identifier parsing, expression detection, and complex escaping scenarios.

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The change adds unquote_ident, applies it to index and constraint column handling, updates SQL identifier comparisons, corrects quoted-identifier fixtures, and adds tests for quoted column names with embedded double quotes.

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Quoted Identifier Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Identifier unquoting utility
web/pgadmin/utils/__init__.py, web/pgadmin/utils/tests/test_unquote_ident.py
Adds unquote_ident and tests quoted identifiers, embedded doubled quotes, expressions, malformed values, empty strings, and None.
Index and constraint column normalization
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/{indexes, constraints}/...
Uses unquote_ident when normalizing column names in index, exclusion-constraint, foreign-key, and index-constraint code.
SQL template fixes for quoted identifier comparison
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/{indexes,exclusion_constraint}/sql/default/*.sql
Compares index definitions with quoted attribute names when computing is_exp.
Quoted-identifier fixtures and regression coverage
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/indexes/tests/test_indexes_quoted_column.py, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/tests/{pg,ppas}/default/*.sql
Tests mixed-case, reserved, and embedded-quote column names. Corrects embedded quote escaping in PostgreSQL and PPAS constraint fixtures.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 95e32

The PR fixes display and editing of index or constraint columns with quoted names and is otherwise mergeable, but an unresolved shared-server username fallback issue remains in a modified shared utility and should receive explicit owner follow-up.

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  participant RegressionTest
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant IndexAPI
  participant IndexSQL
  participant IndexUtils
  RegressionTest->>PostgreSQL: Create quoted column and index
  IndexAPI->>IndexSQL: Retrieve index column metadata
  IndexSQL->>PostgreSQL: Compare index definition with quote_ident(attname)
  IndexAPI->>IndexUtils: Normalize returned column identifier
  IndexUtils-->>IndexAPI: Return unquoted column name
  IndexAPI-->>RegressionTest: Return column name and is_exp=false
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The SQL fix (comparing against quote_ident(a.attname) instead of a.attname) is correct — is_exp will now classify properly. But the Python side that displays the column name is still broken for the exact category the PR claims to fix.

web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/indexes/utils.py:123 uses attdef.strip('"'). str.strip('"') strips outer quotes but doesn't unescape doubled inner quotes. For a column named col"x, pg_get_indexdef returns "col""x"; .strip('"') yields col""x, not col"x. So the properties panel still displays the wrong name for any identifier containing a literal ".

Pull this into a tiny helper:

def unquote_ident(s):
    if s.startswith('"') and s.endswith('"'):
        return s[1:-1].replace('""', '"')
    return s

Tests gap: no scenarios for quoted-identifier column names (uppercase, spaces, reserved words, embedded "). The regression that caused #6481 wouldn't have been caught by existing tests, and this PR doesn't add coverage for it.

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…g#6481

The is_exp flag compared pg_get_indexdef() (which returns the SQL-quoted
identifier) directly against a.attname (the raw name). For any column
name needing quoting these differ, so a plain column was wrongly treated
as an expression and not rendered, and validation reported it empty.
Compare against pg_catalog.quote_ident(a.attname) instead, which matches
pg_get_indexdef()'s output for both normal and quoted names; real
expressions (attname NULL) still evaluate as expressions.
The SQL fix classifies the column correctly, but the Python that displays
it still used str.strip('"'), which removes the outer quotes without
unescaping the doubled inner ones, so a column named col"x came back as
col""x and the properties panel showed the wrong name. Worse, the create
templates re-quote that value with qtIdent(), turning it into
"col""""x" in generated DDL.

unquote_ident() in pgadmin.utils reverses quote_ident() properly: it
unescapes doubled quotes, and because it only matches a string that is
entirely one quoted identifier it leaves expressions such as "a" || "b"
alone, which strip() mangled. The same pattern appeared in the index,
exclusion, index and foreign key constraint code, so all five call sites
now share the helper.

Tests cover the helper directly, and a new index test asserts the
Properties panel reports the right column for a mixed case name, a
reserved word and a name containing a literal double quote, none of which
had any coverage.

The 11_plus index template hunk from the original commit is dropped: that
bucket no longer exists on master.
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Thanks for the thorough review, Ashesh.

The Python side is now fixed with an unquote_ident() helper in pgadmin.utils that reverses quote_ident() properly, unescaping doubled inner quotes rather than just stripping the outer ones. It's now shared by all five call sites that had the same .strip('"') pattern: indexes, index constraints, exclusion constraints and foreign keys.

Test coverage added:

  • web/pgadmin/utils/tests/test_unquote_ident.py — unit tests for the helper directly (unquoted names, outer-quote stripping, doubled inner quotes, expressions like "a" || "b" left untouched, edge cases).
  • web/pgadmin/browser/.../indexes/tests/test_indexes_quoted_column.py — new regression scenarios asserting the Properties panel reports the right column name and is_exp is False for a mixed-case name, a reserved word, and a name containing a literal ".

Also rebased onto current upstream/master to pick up the CI fixes. All indexes and constraints test packages pass locally (48 + 150 tests).

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Align the fallback condition with validation.

When a shared server has Username="" and a non-empty SharedUsername, validation accepts the record because it treats the empty username as missing. The loader falls back only for None, so it stores an empty username instead of SharedUsername. Use if is_shared and not username, or make both paths use the same missing-value rule.

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-            if is_shared and username is None:
+            if is_shared and not username:
                 username = shared_username

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The resql scenarios covering a table whose column name contains a double
quote were recorded before this fix, so their expected SQL still carries
the doubly escaped name that the old .strip('"') produced: a constraint
referring to "col1_...\""""'`\\/#" where the column it was declared
against, two lines above, is "col1_...\""'`\\/#".

Now that identifiers are unquoted properly rather than having their outer
quotes stripped, the generated script agrees with itself, and agrees with
what PostgreSQL's own quote_ident() returns for the name in question, so
the recorded SQL is what needed correcting.

Twelve files, six scenarios across pg and ppas: create table with a
primary key, create table with a primary key and a check constraint,
add and delete columns, add a unique constraint, and delete constraints.
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Fixed the run-python-tests-pg failures, which were the resql suite rather than anything at runtime.

Six scenarios covering a table whose column name contains a double quote (create table with a primary key, create table with a primary key and a check constraint, add and delete columns, add a unique constraint, delete constraints) had their expected SQL recorded before this fix, so it still carried the doubly escaped name the old .strip('"') produced. In those files the constraint refers to "col1_...\""""'\/#"while the column it is declared against, two lines above, is"col1_...""'\\/#".

Now that identifiers are unquoted properly, the generated script agrees with itself, and agrees with what PostgreSQL's own quote_ident() returns for that name, so it was the recorded SQL that needed correcting rather than the code. Twelve files updated, six scenarios across both pg and ppas. --pkg resql and the full Python suite both pass locally.

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