Re: Allow disabling folding of unquoted identifiers to lowercase

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:38 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 4/29/2016 12:56 PM, John McKown wrote:
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> 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.
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> ​ Why? PostgreSQL is written in C. So use strncasecmp() instead of
> strncmp() or strcasecmp() instead of strcmp() to test for a token.
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> are those the APIs the parser uses?
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​Ah. Good point. I ASSuMEd that what any C language program would use.
IIRC, PostgreSQL uses Bison and Flex to generate the parsing grammars, and
I don't know what those products output.​

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