Re: [Bulk] Re: quoted identifier behaviour

Randall Smith wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >This whole discussion is reminding me of one of my personal mantras, and
> >that is that relying on "artifacts" of behaviour is generally a bad
> >idea.
> >
> >For instance, many databases accept != for not equal, but the sql
> >standard quite clearly says it's <>.
> >
> >If you're relying on case folding meaning that you don't have to
> >consistently use the same capitalization when referring to variables,
> >table names, people, or anything else, you're asking for trouble down
> >the line, and for little or no real gain today.
> >
> >I know that a lot of times we are stuck with some commercial package
> >that we can't do anything to fix, so I'm not aiming this comment at the
> >average dba, but at the developer.
>
> Yea, this is a commercial package, but it's actually doing it right.
> Since it doesn't know how a user will name a table or column, it always
> calls them as quoted strings in upper case which is standards compliant,
> but doesn't work with PG. So if a user names a table 55 and mine, it
> calls "55 AND MINE" and for foo, it calls "FOO". Looks like they did it
> right to me.

So what's the problem? Just create the tables as all uppercase and you
should be fine, since the application must be systematic about quoting.

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