Re: Allow disabling folding of unquoted identifiers to lowercase

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allow disabling folding of unquoted identifiers to lowercase
Date: 2016-04-29 20:38:22
Message-ID: 8733c0e7-9b9a-5626-16ca-adf57c231a1f@hogranch.com
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On 4/29/2016 12:56 PM, John McKown wrote:
>
> I suspect this would be painful for the parser, unless you also
> enforced that all SQL keywords were in a specific case (all lower
> would be the minimal impact to the code). otherwise the parser
> would have to lower() every token to check to see if its a
> keyword, but if not, revert it to its original case.
>
>
> ​ Why? PostgreSQL is written in C. So use strncasecmp() instead of
> strncmp() or strcasecmp() instead of strcmp() to test for a token.

are those the APIs the parser uses?

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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