Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: gearond(at)cvc(dot)net
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-03-14 20:46:06
Message-ID: 200303142046.h2EKk6B24278@candle.pha.pa.us
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Do you have as much trouble reading those all-uppercase queries as I do?

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Dennis Gearon wrote:
> THAT explains why all that stuff is in UPPER case in ORACLE .... now I
> see their dastardly plan!
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >>Any chance a patch to set a GUC for case folding would get applied?
> >
> >
> > Not really, because it would break everything in sight. (Hint: all the
> > system catalog names are lower-case ...)
> >
> > regards, tom lane
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