| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| 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 14:39:15 |
| Message-ID: | 4353B793.8090304@Yahoo.com |
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On 10/17/2005 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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)
Ugh ... got me on the MAX part.
Jan
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