From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: beau hargis <beauh@bluefrogmobile.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Case Preservation disregarding case sensitivity?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:43:58 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200611141843.kAEIhwv04665@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610301928.51255.beauh@bluefrogmobile.com>
beau hargis wrote:
> Having installed DB2 Enterprise today and taking it for a spin, it does indeed
> behave in a similar manner. However, after reading through both
> specifications, it seems that DB2 follows more of the spec than PostgreSQL.
> The specifications state that for purpose of comparing identifiers, both
> shall be converted to upper-case. DB2 displays all identifiers in upper-case
> whereas PostgreSQL displays all identifiers in lower-case. This alone would
> be a deviation from the specification.
True. We lowercase because historically we have, and because
all-upper-case is hard to read.
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Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us
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