Re: Identifier case folding notes

From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Identifier case folding notes
Date: 2008-07-09 07:42:18
Message-ID: 200807090942.18571.andreak@officenet.no
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On Wednesday 09 July 2008 00:35:07 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no> writes:
> > Right. From a user's perspective 4) sounds best. I often run into problems having keywords as column-names:
>
> None of the proposals on the table will remove the need to use quotes in
> that case.

I know, but then tools/frameworks won't fail when they produce queries like SELECT "USER" FROM test, because it sends "USER" and not "user".

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