From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
Cc: | 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 20:49:29 |
Message-ID: | 23499.1047674969@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not really, because it would break everything in sight. (Hint: all the
>> system catalog names are lower-case ...)
> Right, we've mentioned it before. I still think it would be possible to
> make one stick, as long as you either had some kind of kludgy wrapper for
> system catalogs, or a way to make them uppercase after booting up.
> I maintain that if postgresql works out of spec, it should, if possible,
> have a way of working within the spec if it can, so we can attract more
> conversion customers from the (currently) more comlpiant databases.
Yeah, I know. So far I've not seen any proposals for this that I could
support (in particular I don't want to be forced into looking at
upper-cased system catalogs) ... but it's an open problem. Maybe
someone will have a bright idea sometime about how to make everyone happy.
regards, tom lane
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