Re: Can I turn the case sensitive off

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:28, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:34:26PM -0700, Terence Chang wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > I don't remember I even seen a document saying PostgreSQL are case
> > sensitive. I just figure out that my column name are case
>
> The docs have it in a footnote:
>
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/sql-syntax.html#FTN.AEN1031
>
> PostgreSQL's approach is backwards from the standard.
>
> > sensitive. Is there any way that I can turn it off or force the
> > object name to all upper case?
>
> Yes. Double-quote them. Alternatively, _never_ double-quote and
> just refer to everything in all upper case. Postgres will
> automatically fold them to lower case anyway, but you won't get them
> displayed in all upper case.

Is there any firm discussion about making this more standard? I'm
sure that as PG becomes more popular, more people will get bitten
by this.

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