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To: "Whatever Deep" <whatever.deep@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Whatever Deep" <whatever.deep@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:45:37 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Whatever Deep" <whatever.deep@gmail.com> writes:
> This question may sound dumb, but I would like to know if using
> "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names instead of lowercase names for
> object names has any negative hit to the database performance.

I can't imagine you could measure any performance difference ...
the two cases involve slightly different code paths in scan.l,
but after that it doesn't matter.

			regards, tom lane