| From: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Shachar Shemesh <psql(at)shemesh(dot)biz> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL? |
| Date: | 2004-04-23 09:22:33 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0404231117270.4551-100000@zigo.dhs.org |
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> When I ask about non-standard complience of Pg (turning unquoted
> identifiers to lowercase instead of uppercase, violating the SQL
> standard, and requring an expensive rewrite of clients), and I get the
> answer "uppercase is ugly", I think something is wrong.
I would love if someone fixed pg so that one can get the standard
behaviour. It would however have to be a setting that can be changed so we
are still backward compatible.
> that even if I write a patch to start migration, I'm not likely to get
> it in.
Just changing to uppercase would break old code so such a patch should not
just be commited. But would people stop a patch that is backward
compatible (in the worst case a setting during initdb)? I'm not so sure
they will.
--
/Dennis Björklund
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