Re: Unquoted column names fold to lower case

On Wed, Jul  3, 2013 at 12:20:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dev Kumkar  writes:
> > Any plans to fix this in next release or having a patch to fix this?
> 
> No.
> 
> This has been discussed (many times) before.  There isn't any feasible
> way to change this behavior without breaking an incredible amount of
> code, much of which isn't even under our control.  The marginal increase
> in standards compliance is not worth the pain --- especially when the
> aspect of the standard in question isn't even one that most of us like.
> (All-upper-case is hard to read.)
> 
> If this is a deal-breaker for you, then I'm sorry, but you need to find
> another database.  Postgres settled on this behavior fifteen years ago,
> and we're not changing it now.

Agreed.  I guess we could add it to the "Features We Do Not Want"
section of the TODO list, but it rarely comes up.

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