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Example of escaping the `quote` character in a source definition
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### Link to the page on docs.getdbt.com requiring updates
https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/resource-properties/quoting
### What part(s) of the page would you like to see updated?
Include an example for this edge case: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11888#issuecomment-3151436707.
Example for for `dbt-postgres` is here: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11888#issuecomment-3150697113:
```yaml
sources:
- name: my_schema
tables:
- name: my_table
identifier: my""table
quoting:
identifier: true
```
This source then gets rendered like this (which works for Postgres):
```sql
"db"."my_schema"."my""table"
```
### Caveat emptor
The exact escape sequence for this probably varies on a per adapter basis (I didn't fully confirm one way or the other):
```yaml
identifier: my""table
```
For example, the [Postgres docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS) say:
> To include a double quote, write two double quotes.
### Additional information
Quoting is a complicated topic! Lots more info here: https://github.com/dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com/issues/3518
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