| From: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SQL Standards Compliance With Casexx |
| Date: | 2006-07-13 01:23:51 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0607121822540.14352@salmo.appl-ecosys.com |
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> AFAIK, SQL says that an non-quoted identifier such as Foo is treated as
> FOO (case-folded to upper). PostgreSQL currently treats it as foo
> (case-folded to lower). Quoted identifiers are not case-folded and are
> compared case-sensitive.
>
> So, for example my understanding of spec would say:
Thank you very much for the complete explanation, Stephan.
> These seem to be complaining that there's already a table, view, index,
> etc with that name already. Is there one being created with a different
> case that's assuming that it'll preserve case rather than fold?
That's what Josh pointed out. I totally missed that.
Many thanks,
Rich
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