Nico Sabbi wrote:
> yet I find disturbing that Postgres doesn't make the effort
> to respect the case specified by the user.
It does -- if you quote the names.
> If I created a field
> called "REF" why should Postgres call it "ref" in the output of queries
> if the standard doesn't specify any obligation to convert the name ?
Actually I think the standard mandates case-folding (though to upper
case rather than lower, i.e. the other way around)
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