Re: tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers
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Msg-id 5404.1188864206@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: tsearch filenames unlikes special symbols and numbers  ("Ben Tilly" <btilly@gmail.com>)
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"Ben Tilly" <btilly@gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/3/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There seems fairly clear use-case for allowing A-Z a-z 0-9 and
>> underscore (while CVS head rejects 0-9 and underscore).

> The problem with allowing uppercase letters is that on some
> filesystems foo and Foo are the same file, and on others they are not.
>  This may lead to obscure portability problems where code worked fine
> on Unix and then fails when the database is running on Windows.

Yeah, good point.  So far it seems that a-z 0-9 and underscore cover the
real use-cases, so what say we just allow those for now?  It's a lot
easier to loosen up later than tighten up ...
        regards, tom lane


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