Tom,
At what version will the server accept non quoted language identifier ?
We need the tests to pass on at least 8.4 I would think.
Dave Cramer
dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Mike Fowler" <mike@mlfowler.com> writes:
>> HEAD is failing in a completely different way. A sample from the logs:
>> [junit] ERROR: language "SQL" does not exist
>
> I believe that's something Robert changed recently. We used to forcibly
> downcase language names even if quoted, but he successfully argued that
> that was inconsistent and unnecessary. So I'm guessing your test suite
> contains CREATE FUNCTION ... LANGUAGE "SQL", and you should remove the
> quotes.
>
> [ digs in logs... ] Ah, here we are:
>
> Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
> Branch: master [67dc4eed4] 2011-11-17 14:25:18 -0500
>
> Remove ancient downcasing code from procedural language operations.
>
> A very long time ago, language names were specified as literals rather
> than identifiers, so this code was added to do case-folding. But that
> style has ben deprecated for many years so this isn't needed any more.
> Language names will still be downcased when specified as unquoted
> identifiers, but quoted identifiers or the old style using string
> literals will be left as-is.
>
> regards, tom lane
