Re: bug in on_error_rollback !? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?
Date
Msg-id 4148.24.211.165.134.1161939037.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?  ("Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?  ("Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>)
Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Re: bug in on_error_rollback !?  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> Thanks ...
>
> but case-sensitivity (even without quotes or d-quotes) is the last thing
> I'd
> expect in a SQL compliant software. This was highly unexpected. May I dare
> to raise a bug to eliminate case-sensitivity in psql variables? Will I get
> support from the community?
>


psql variables and commands are not SQL, and are case sensitive. For
example, \ds and \dS are not at all the same.

This is documented clearly on the psql man page, so it is simply not a
bug, and changing this would probably break lots of legacy scripts.

cheers

andrew



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