Re: quoted identifier behaviour

From: "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Randall Smith *EXTERN*" <randall(at)tnr(dot)cc>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: quoted identifier behaviour
Date: 2007-03-14 17:36:50
Message-ID: AFCCBB403D7E7A4581E48F20AF3E5DB201B0A23E@EXADV1.host.magwien.gv.at
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Randall Smith wrote:
> Are there plans to make Postgresql's behavior SQL compliant with
regards
> to quoted identifiers? My specific need is to access tables named in
> lower case by an uppercase quoted identifier, which is in line with
the
> SQL standard. So if I created table foo, I should be able to access
it
> like "FOO". Is there a configuration options that modifies this
> behavior or can I change the names in the system tables?

I don't think that there are plans to change this as it would be
hard to maintain compatibility.

You must not change the names of system tables, but you can
certainly create upper case views for them.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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