Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-03-14 20:17:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0303141315140.23951-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> "scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
> > Any chance a patch to set a GUC for case folding would get applied?
>
> Not really, because it would break everything in sight. (Hint: all the
> system catalog names are lower-case ...)

Right, we've mentioned it before. I still think it would be possible to
make one stick, as long as you either had some kind of kludgy wrapper for
system catalogs, or a way to make them uppercase after booting up.

I maintain that if postgresql works out of spec, it should, if possible,
have a way of working within the spec if it can, so we can attract more
conversion customers from the (currently) more comlpiant databases.

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