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To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Unquoted column names fold to lower case
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:24:02 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 04:16:41PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Theodore Petrosky, 03.07.2013 15:41:
> > sorry, but you misunderstand. this is the correct behavior of SQL.
> >
> > It is part of the specification to do this.
> >
>
> Not quite. The SQL standard requires folding to uppercase.
Agreed. The original poster specifically wanted "MYTABLE" and mytable
to be the same, not "mytable" and mytable. Postgres is certainly
non-standard in this area. I think the ability visiually distinguish
lower-case letters better than upper-case letters has led to our
behavior.
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