On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:24:02PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> Well yes that works, but why? In every book I have ever read on SQL
> the column names are not in quotes, and the other DB I use regularly
> (IBM DB/2) does not require the column names in quotes, and actually
> does not recognise the column names if they are in quotes?
PostgreSQL is actually contrary to the standard here, in that it
makes everyting lower-case. If you want an uppercase column name,
you have to double-quote it. Otherwise, leave everything unquoted
and use lower case.
A
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