On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:28, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:34:26PM -0700, Terence Chang wrote: > > All: > > > > I don't remember I even seen a document saying PostgreSQL are case > > sensitive. I just figure out that my column name are case > > The docs have it in a footnote: > > http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/sql-syntax.html#FTN.AEN1031 > > PostgreSQL's approach is backwards from the standard. > > > sensitive. Is there any way that I can turn it off or force the > > object name to all upper case? > > Yes. Double-quote them. Alternatively, _never_ double-quote and > just refer to everything in all upper case. Postgres will > automatically fold them to lower case anyway, but you won't get them > displayed in all upper case.
Is there any firm discussion about making this more standard? I'm sure that as PG becomes more popular, more people will get bitten by this. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
