From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ben Tilly <btilly@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:03:26 -0400
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"Ben Tilly" <btilly@gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/3/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There seems fairly clear use-case for allowing A-Z a-z 0-9 and
>> underscore (while CVS head rejects 0-9 and underscore).
> The problem with allowing uppercase letters is that on some
> filesystems foo and Foo are the same file, and on others they are not.
> This may lead to obscure portability problems where code worked fine
> on Unix and then fails when the database is running on Windows.
Yeah, good point. So far it seems that a-z 0-9 and underscore cover the
real use-cases, so what say we just allow those for now? It's a lot
easier to loosen up later than tighten up ...
regards, tom lane
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