On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:45:28AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > lower will now simply be folder upper. the only people who will have a > problem are those who quote on one end but not the other, which is bad > practice anyways... so i would say if your serious about it, make the > patch as GUC "case_folding" for upper or lower and get a taste for what > breaks inside the db.
If it were that easy, it wouldn't matter, right? That is, if you had a system which was either consistently quoted or consistently unquoted, then you'd never run into the problem of the upper-or-lower question. It's precisely _because_ systems often have been maintained by various cranks for 20 years that it's a problem. One guy thinks quoting is stupid. Another thinks that if you don't quote, you're asking for trouble, A third has been rigourous in following the quoting convention he learned in his last job. The ship date is three weeks away, and there are 802 "P1" bugs filed. What chance do you think there is that someone is going to scrub all the checkins of quotes (or apply them carefully)? This is _exactly_ why standards compliance for this stuff matters, and why backward comaptibility is also a top priority. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster