Well I think I have got the point. True indeed if I would read also in my
language, romanian, then I would choose lower-case.
I bet there are more interesting things what you guys are working on and
I was just curious to ask. I understood replication would be a major
benefit to have in 7.3 and as well, maybe, ALTER TABLE fully implemented
as SQL92 ?
stefan
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > stefan@extum.com writes:
> > > > But anyway this is not so important, but why upper cases are bad ?
> > >
> > > It's well established that all-lower-case text is more readable than
> > > all-upper-case ...
> >
> > Agreed. Absolutely. But, since the SQL standard says upper case,
> > wouldn't it be useful to at least have a switch (run time, initdb time,
> > or ./configure time???) called something like FOLDTOUPPER (in upper case
> > of course :-)
> >
> > If it's an easy win I'd be willing to do it. I'm not the world's greatest
> > C hacker, but I still remember enough of it to be competant.
>
> Yea, I guess we could. I think the consensus is that the uppercase
> default is so weird, we don't know anyone who would want to use it.
> Would you?
>
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