Re: BUG #2302: not a bug - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Reece Hart
Subject Re: BUG #2302: not a bug
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Msg-id 1141680076.1083.22.camel@tallac.gene.com
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In response to BUG #2302: \d command gets double quoted table name in error message - ""table_name""  ("Alexander Pivovarov" <apivovarov@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #2302: not a bug
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On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:03 +0000, Alexander Pivovarov wrote:
> e.g. I have a table "weather".
> when I run:
> mydb=# \d "weatheR"
> Did not find any relation named ""weatheR"".
>
> weatheR is double quoted by "" in error message

This is not a bug.  Quoting always makes identifiers case-sensitive, per
the SQL standard.

Read section 4.1.1:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS

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Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0

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