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 D2230D1C9B4; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:52:14 -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 43101-06; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:52:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from zigo.dhs.org (as2-4-3.an.g.bonet.se [194.236.34.191]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16C1D1BACC; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:52:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from zigo.zigo.dhs.org (zigo.zigo.dhs.org [192.168.0.1]) by zigo.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD6688E8; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:52:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:52:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Dennis Bjorklund To: Tom Lane Cc: Stephan Szabo , Shachar Shemesh , Robert Treat , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-development , PostgreSQL advocacy Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL? In-Reply-To: <8160.1082785627@sss.pgh.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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: 200404/178 X-Sequence-Number: 4150 On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > First I thought that one can store the string with case all the time, and > > just convert when needed (when comparing identifiers). > > People keep suggesting these random not-quite-standard behaviors, but > I fail to see the point. Are you arguing for exact standards > compliance, or not? That was me making conversation, pointing out something that does not work. Since it does not work I don't want it to be implemented. And with work I mean not follow the standard. For something to follow standard it has to behave the correct way to the outside, how it's implemented is a different matter. The above does not work. Period. -- /Dennis Björklund