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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Unquoted column names fold to lower case
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:27:56 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:20:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com> writes:
> > Any plans to fix this in next release or having a patch to fix this?
>
> No.
>
> This has been discussed (many times) before. There isn't any feasible
> way to change this behavior without breaking an incredible amount of
> code, much of which isn't even under our control. The marginal increase
> in standards compliance is not worth the pain --- especially when the
> aspect of the standard in question isn't even one that most of us like.
> (All-upper-case is hard to read.)
>
> If this is a deal-breaker for you, then I'm sorry, but you need to find
> another database. Postgres settled on this behavior fifteen years ago,
> and we're not changing it now.
Agreed. I guess we could add it to the "Features We Do Not Want"
section of the TODO list, but it rarely comes up.
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