Received: from extum.com (extum.com [194.29.195.34]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD727475A58; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by extum.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g6KK1nv04805; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:01:52 +0300 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:01:49 +0300 (EEST) From: stefan@extum.com To: Bruce Momjian Cc: "scott.marlowe" , Tom Lane , Martijn van Oosterhout , , Subject: Re: [SQL] id and ID in CREATE TABLE In-Reply-To: <200207191729.g6JHTGD29488@candle.pha.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200207/1241 X-Sequence-Number: 27728 Well I think I have got the point. True indeed if I would read also in my language, romanian, then I would choose lower-case. I bet there are more interesting things what you guys are working on and I was just curious to ask. I understood replication would be a major benefit to have in 7.3 and as well, maybe, ALTER TABLE fully implemented as SQL92 ? stefan On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > stefan@extum.com writes: > > > > But anyway this is not so important, but why upper cases are bad ? > > > > > > It's well established that all-lower-case text is more readable than > > > all-upper-case ... > > > > Agreed. Absolutely. But, since the SQL standard says upper case, > > wouldn't it be useful to at least have a switch (run time, initdb time, > > or ./configure time???) called something like FOLDTOUPPER (in upper case > > of course :-) > > > > If it's an easy win I'd be willing to do it. I'm not the world's greatest > > C hacker, but I still remember enough of it to be competant. > > Yea, I guess we could. I think the consensus is that the uppercase > default is so weird, we don't know anyone who would want to use it. > Would you? > >