why restrict role "public" but not "Public"?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: why restrict role "public" but not "Public"?
Date: 2010-08-24 22:34:11
Message-ID: 1282689179-sup-8861@alvh.no-ip.org
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Hi,

I just noticed that we restrict creation of a role named "public", but
this is case-sensitive -- i.e. we don't restrict roles named PUBLIC,
etc.

Is this intended?

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>

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