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: 2007-03-15 10:41:18
Message-ID: AFCCBB403D7E7A4581E48F20AF3E5DB201B4AE1A@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.
>>
>> You must not change the names of system tables, but you can
>> certainly create upper case views for them.
>
> That's my current solution. I imagine this is not very
> efficient, but I could be wrong.

I think that the performance impact is negligible.
The pain is to maintain the views - the catalog tables can
change in every new release...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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