Re: Identifier case folding notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: Identifier case folding notes
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Msg-id 4873E159.6070106@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to Re: Identifier case folding notes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Identifier case folding notes  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What I think would perhaps be worth investigating is a compile-time
> (or at latest initdb-time) option that flips the case folding behavior
> to SQL-spec-compliant and also changes all the built-in catalog entries
> to upper case.  We would then have a solution we could offer to people
> who really need to run apps that depend on SQL-spec case folding ...
> and if the upper case hurts their eyes, or breaks some other apps that
> they wish they could run in the same DB, well it's their problem.

+1 for a compile-time option for spec-compliant behavior.   Even
where the spec is stupid (timestamp with time zone literals) it'd
be nice to have the option; both for feature completeness
checklists and for teachers who want to teach targeting the spec.




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