On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Kelly SACAULT <kelly.saca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is what I read from the officiel manual : > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html > > stating that : > ".. Identifier and key word names are case insensitive..." > > This is not the truth at all and I think that this statement must be > corrected in the manual regarding the below observation
It's completely true. Identifiers are most definitely case-insensitive, unless of course you quote them. This is documented on the very same web page you just quoted, a little far down: Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, whereas unquoted names are always folded to lower case. For example, the identifiers FOO, foo, and "foo" are considered the same by PostgreSQL, but "Foo" and "FOO" are different from these three and each other. (The folding of unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL is incompatible with the SQL standard, which says that unquoted names should be folded to upper case. Thus, foo should be equivalent to "FOO" not "foo" according to the standard. If you want to write portable applications you are advised to always quote a particular name or never quote it.) You may not like the current behavior (that's up to you), but I don't believe there's any problem with how it's documented. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
