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@ 2007-12-11 17:05 Ertel, Steve <Steve.Ertel@infimatic.com>
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From: Ertel, Steve @ 2007-12-11 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I see that I can create a table with a mixed case name as long as the name 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?
Thanks,
SteveE
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* Re: case sensitivity for tables, columns, and constraint names
@ 2007-12-11 17:24 A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
parent: Ertel, Steve <Steve.Ertel@infimatic.com>
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From: A. Kretschmer @ 2007-12-11 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
am Tue, dem 11.12.2007, um 11:05:25 -0600 mailte Ertel, Steve folgendes:
>
> I see that I can create a table with a mixed case name as long as the name 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.
Andreas
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* Re: case sensitivity for tables, columns, and constraint names
@ 2007-12-11 17:30 Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
parent: Ertel, Steve <Steve.Ertel@infimatic.com>
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From: Andrew Sullivan @ 2007-12-11 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
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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* Re: case sensitivity for tables, columns, and constraint names
@ 2007-12-11 17:35 Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
parent: Ertel, Steve <Steve.Ertel@infimatic.com>
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From: Richard Huxton @ 2007-12-11 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ertel, Steve <Steve.Ertel@infimatic.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Ertel, Steve wrote:
> I see that I can create a table with a mixed case name as long as the
> name 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, SQL defines identifiers as case-insensitive.
PG is unusual in that left alone it folds names to lower-case rather
than upper, but all SQL databases (afaik) are case-insensitive by default.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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