| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Aly S(dot)P Dharshi" <aly(dot)dharshi(at)telus(dot)net>, "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas |
| Date: | 2005-10-17 14:16:59 |
| Message-ID: | 22146.1129558619@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> What is bad about leaving pg_catalog all lower case and expect everyone
> to query the catalog quoted?
The fact that it will break every nontrivial client currently in
existence. Those quotes aren't there in the clients and we can't
suddenly mandate them to become there. Also, that approach does not
work for built-in functions (MAX, etc)
regards, tom lane
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