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To: Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
Cc: Bo Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-sql <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Overcoming Initcap Function limitations?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:23:55 -0500
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Steve Midgley <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 5:39 PM Bo Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Your suggestions open up new potentials for me to explore. At this
>> moment, I lean towards normalizing the database column values in upper
>> case, thereby out-sourcing the case-changing responsibility to the front
>> end. I would love to hear from your thoughts on this pattern.
> It really depends on the use case. If your users are happy with all
> uppercase, that seems like a great solution: fast, cheap, and reliable!
FWIW, as an old database geek I'd lean more towards "store the original
input data". If you are expecting the client-side display code to
transform the casing anyway, I don't see any advantage in smashing to
upper case beforehand. And keeping the original casing could have
value down the road, if only for forensic purposes.
regards, tom lane
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