Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas
Date
Msg-id 200510160019.12228.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Although ... it's true that there seem to be very few apps relying on
> case sensitivity per se, ie, expecting "Foo" and "foo" to be
> different. The complaints that I can remember were about programs
> that expected "FOO" and FOO (not quoted) to be the same.  So
> always-smash-to-lower- case might indeed solve most of the real-world
> problem for the Oracle camp as well.

That seems to be the right compromise.

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Peter Eisentraut
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