Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chris Travers <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com>, Kelly SACAULT <kelly(dot)sacault(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5308: How to disable Case sensitivity on naming identifiers
Date: 2010-02-03 23:37:32
Message-ID: 20100203233732.GI3905@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian escribió:

> I found one place in the docs where this wasn't immediately clear, so I
> applied the attached documentation patch.

I liked Tom's suggestion better, because then you don't start
questioning about quoting key words or not.

> --- 144,150 ----
> <primary>case sensitivity</primary>
> <secondary>of SQL commands</secondary>
> </indexterm>
> ! Unquoted identifier and key word names are case insensitive. Therefore:
> <programlisting>
> UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
> </programlisting>

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