Re: [SQL] id and ID in CREATE TABLE

stefan(at)extum(dot)com wrote:
>
> I forgot about "" Sorry. So if I would use names quoted then my questions
> are obsolete. Except one:
>
> So actually the only strange part would be PostgreSQL is folding to lower
> cases a column name ...
>
> >From docs:
>
> The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL is
> incompatible with the SQL standard, which says that unquoted names should
> be folded to upper case. Thus, foo should be equivalent to "FOO" not
> "foo" according to the standard. If you want to write portable
> applications you are advised to always quote a particular name or never
> quote it.
>
>
> Why is like this ? Why not letting them upper case if they are not quoted
> ?

Well, historically, we always did lower case, and all-upper case looks
ugly. That's about it.

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