Identifiers in commands

When you use the Netezza Performance Server commands and specify identifiers for users, passwords, database names, and other objects, you can pass normal identifiers that are unquoted on the Linux® command line. The Netezza Performance Server system performs the appropriate case-conversion for the identifier.

However, if you use delimited identifiers, the supported way to pass them on the Linux command line is to use the following syntax:

'\'Identifier\''

The syntax is single quotation mark, backslash, single quotation mark, identifier, backslash, single quotation mark, single quotation mark. This syntax protects the quotation marks so that the identifier remains quoted in the Netezza Performance Server system.