Tom Lane wrote:
What I think would perhaps be worth investigating is a compile-time
(or at latest initdb-time) option that flips the case folding behavior
to SQL-spec-compliant and also changes all the built-in catalog entries
to upper case.  We would then have a solution we could offer to people
who really need to run apps that depend on SQL-spec case folding ...
and if the upper case hurts their eyes, or breaks some other apps that
they wish they could run in the same DB, well it's their problem.

+1 for a compile-time option for spec-compliant behavior.   Even
where the spec is stupid (timestamp with time zone literals) it'd
be nice to have the option; both for feature completeness
checklists and for teachers who want to teach targeting the spec.



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