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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: case sensitivity for tables, columns, and constraint names
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:30:37 -0500
Message-ID: <20071211173037.GL27409@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863ECFDF04C8804ABDF3559D87F157C638E5D9@MAGPTCPEXC02.na.mag-ias.net>
References: <863ECFDF04C8804ABDF3559D87F157C638E5D9@MAGPTCPEXC02.na.mag-ias.net>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:05:25AM -0600, Ertel, Steve wrote:

> is wrapped in quotes.  Is there a setting to allow upper case and mixed
> case names for database tables, fields, etc, without having to wrap each
> in quotes?

No, sorry.  The always-one-case rule for unquoted identifiers is ANSI
conformant.  As it happens, the ANSI rule also makes everything ALLCAPS, but
PostgreSQL doesn't go that way (for historical reasons).

A



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