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From: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
To: David Raymond <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Creating dynamically-typed tables using psycopg2's built-in formatting
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:35:15 -0700
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> On Jun 13, 2019, at 13:29, David Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the capitalization thing basically what's going on is two things. (The way I understand it)
> 1) Postgres IS case sensitive.
> 2) When any query gets sent to the server, the server converts everything not inside quotes to lower case as step 1, _before_ trying to match names for tables, columns, functions, etc.

It's a bit more elaborate than that, although that's not a bad summary of the perceived result.  The details are here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS\

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