Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas
Date: 2005-10-15 22:19:11
Message-ID: 200510160019.12228.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Although ... it's true that there seem to be very few apps relying on
> case sensitivity per se, ie, expecting "Foo" and "foo" to be
> different. The complaints that I can remember were about programs
> that expected "FOO" and FOO (not quoted) to be the same. So
> always-smash-to-lower- case might indeed solve most of the real-world
> problem for the Oracle camp as well.

That seems to be the right compromise.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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