From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Cc: stefan@extum.com, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] id and ID in CREATE TABLE
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:33:29 -0400
Message-ID: <13931.1027100009@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207191051550.3990-100000@css120.ihs.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207191051550.3990-100000@css120.ihs.com>
"scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> Agreed. Absolutely. But, since the SQL standard says upper case,
> wouldn't it be useful to at least have a switch (run time, initdb time,
> or ./configure time???) called something like FOLDTOUPPER (in upper case
> of course :-)
The main problem with this is what do you do with the system catalogs?
If we start folding to upper case then existing clients will break
unless we also rename pg_class to PG_CLASS, etc; and that will break
them anyway if they wrote "pg_class".
I don't believe that conforming to this particular small aspect of the
spec is worth the pain it would cause.
regards, tom lane
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