Lower/upper-case consistency with function names

From: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Lower/upper-case consistency with function names
Date: 2022-06-05 08:20:23
Message-ID: CADT4RqDfNk1ML0hESamaQG5d8MkKuEy43vYuhT=pb95HxkSQWQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi all,

The PostgreSQL docs mostly show function names in lowercase (e.g. [1],
[2]), which seems to be the PostgreSQL-idiomatic thing to do. However, some
pages show functions in upper case, e.g. COALESCE/NULLIF/GREATEST/LEAST
([3]). Is there some difference between these which warrants the case
difference, or just a case of docs inconsistency?

I ran into this while trying to make Entity Framework (.NET ORM) generate
more idiomatic-looking SQL. If this is just an inconsistency, it's
obviously not very important.

Thanks,

Shay
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-aggregate.html
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html
[3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-conditional.html

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