Re: Bringing PostgreSQL torwards the standard regarding - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: Bringing PostgreSQL torwards the standard regarding
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In response to Re: Bringing PostgreSQL torwards the standard regarding  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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scott.marlowe kirjutas T, 27.04.2004 kell 20:43:

> As someone who has discussed this with Tom in the past, I seem to remember 
> that there were major issues with handling the system catalogs, because 
> internally, the backends treat the identifiers as if they have already 
> been quoted.

why not leave it at that and mandate their *external* doublequoted use ?

not only for system catalogs but also for system columns.

I already have had negative experience with a proprietary tool not being
able to use postgres (over ODBC) because it has a system column called
tmin (or was it tid). If things were case-folded to upper automatically,
there would not have been such problem.

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Hannu



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