globally disabling protect identifiers

[eluser]pocketmax[/eluser]
omg, it happened AGAIN in another piece of code but when I specify NOT to do it...it STILL does it!

Code:

$this->db->where('id',$log_id,false);
$data=$this->db->get('mylog',false)->result_array();

SELECT * FROM "mylog" WHERE id =8882c77d

I told it not to back tick the table name but it did it anyway. This is such an obnoxious feature. It would have been better to disable it by default then this. These are complex queries with sub queries, stored procedure calls or formulas, this is just grabbing 3 fields from a table, come on.