Tom Lane wrote:
>That was pretty much the argument that carried the day in the earlier
>thread. However, I'm not sure how many people really use PQfnumber
>(as opposed to hard-wiring assumptions about returned column numbers),
>and it would seem that the intersection of those people with people who
>use mixed-case column names may be nearly the empty set. If a lot of
>people did this, the behavior would have been discussed and documented
>(or changed) long ago. So I'm not convinced that we'd really break
>very many apps by changing to the behavior that everyone seems to agree
>is more sensible.
>
>
...
>So other than the shortlived 6.2 release, releases before 6.5 had the
>behavior Peter wants. I find it interesting that it took more than a
>year for anyone to notice that the putative dequoting+downcasing logic
>installed for 6.3 didn't work.
>
pgAdmin3 beta testers found it...
If you change it, please give me a chance to code it version-aware so
quoting/non-quoting can be performed dependent on libpq in use.
Regards,
Andreas
