Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Bernd Helmle" <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, "PGSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?
Date: 2006-10-27 08:50:37
Message-ID: 4148.24.211.165.134.1161939037.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> Thanks ...
>
> but case-sensitivity (even without quotes or d-quotes) is the last thing
> I'd
> expect in a SQL compliant software. This was highly unexpected. May I dare
> to raise a bug to eliminate case-sensitivity in psql variables? Will I get
> support from the community?
>

psql variables and commands are not SQL, and are case sensitive. For
example, \ds and \dS are not at all the same.

This is documented clearly on the psql man page, so it is simply not a
bug, and changing this would probably break lots of legacy scripts.

cheers

andrew

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