Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers
Date
Msg-id 201002032249.o13MnQC21215@momjian.us
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In response to Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Chris Travers <chris@metatrontech.com> wrote:
> > I don't like the proposed wording though. ?I would suggest something more like:
>
> Just to be clear, that's the actual wording, not a proposal.

I found one place in the docs where this wasn't immediately clear, so I
applied the attached documentation patch.

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Index: doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.139
diff -c -c -r1.139 syntax.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml    15 Dec 2009 17:57:46 -0000    1.139
--- doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml    3 Feb 2010 22:42:38 -0000
***************
*** 144,150 ****
       <primary>case sensitivity</primary>
       <secondary>of SQL commands</secondary>
      </indexterm>
!     Identifier and key word names are case insensitive.  Therefore:
  <programlisting>
  UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
  </programlisting>
--- 144,150 ----
       <primary>case sensitivity</primary>
       <secondary>of SQL commands</secondary>
      </indexterm>
!     Unquoted identifier and key word names are case insensitive.  Therefore:
  <programlisting>
  UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
  </programlisting>

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