Re: quoted identifier behaviour

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Randall Smith <randall(at)tnr(dot)cc>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: quoted identifier behaviour
Date: 2007-03-20 21:36:09
Message-ID: 200703202136.l2KLa9529566@momjian.us
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Randall Smith wrote:
> Thanks Tom. I understand your points and I gather that the cost of
> making the change (even as an option) outweighs the benefits of SQL
> conformance for the developers. Though I'm still of the same opinion.
>
> I'll give the pghackers forum a visit and since I'm already on the
> subject here, I'll make a direct comparison of the situation.
> Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is known to have poor support
> for the CSS standard, but refuses to fix it saying that it's too
> difficult and would break existing websites. Many developers, myself
> included, prefer to code to the standard and have the html/css render
> correctly in all browsers. In the long run, it's better to do it right
> even if that means breaking things today. If the standard is good (there
> are poor standards), there's no reason to not use the standard.

If we thought uppercase was a _better_ way to do things, we might some
day make the switch, but we don't, so the switch will probably never
happen.

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