X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C2AD1D29F for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:21:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40926-05 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:21:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from latenight.fiasco.org.il (latenight.fiasco.org.il [192.117.122.39]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 365D3D1D17E for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:21:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 14909 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2004 13:21:55 -0000 X-Scanned-By: AMaViS-ng at latenight.fiasco.org.il Received: from unknown (HELO shemesh.biz) (192.117.102.130) by latenight.fiasco.org.il with SMTP; 24 Apr 2004 13:21:55 -0000 Message-ID: <408A69F2.7090103@shemesh.biz> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:21:54 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh Organization: Lingnu Open Source Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en, he MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Treat Cc: PostgreSQL-development , PostgreSQL advocacy Subject: Re: Do we prefer software that works or software that looks good? References: <200404240748.18313.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <408A590F.7070900@shemesh.biz> <200404240909.46173.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <200404240909.46173.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/235 X-Sequence-Number: 4207 Robert Treat wrote: >IMHO apps that apply quoted identifiers willy nilly are busted anyway, > Not really. Sometimes the app itself will be very consistent, never applying quotes, but an underlying driver will always apply quotes. The result is a mixed behaviour. There is nothing you or me can do about that. Notice that in the above case, neither app nor driver are violating their mandate, and both are well within their right to do so. So long as the behaviour is regulated by a standard, there is nothing you and I can say against such practices. >Oh well... let's see if we can find a way to support both... > > > You are welcome to join the other leg of this thread, then. That one is not CCed to advocacy, as it is 100% technical. >Robert Treat > > Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/