Re: Feature idea: standard_quoting_identifiers property - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Feature idea: standard_quoting_identifiers property
Date
Msg-id 4DF21608.2040401@enterprisedb.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Feature idea: standard_quoting_identifiers property  (Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 10.06.2011 13:06, Grzegorz Szpetkowski wrote:
> What do you think about adding new postgresql.conf property, let's
> briefly say standard_quoting_identifiers with default value off to
> maintain backward compatibility, which allows to use standard
> upper-case equivalents (so Foo and "FOO" will be the same, but Foo and
> "foo" not) ?

This has been suggested and rejected, or at least left unresolved 
because no-one has been able to figure out all the details, many times 
before. You should read the past discussions on this. For starters, see 
the list of threads listed on the TODO item on this:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo

"Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted 
identifiers"

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Gurjeet Singh
Date:
Subject: Re: Creating new remote branch in git?
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: [BUG] Denormal float values break backup/restore