Re: Bringing PostgreSQL torwards the standard regarding

scott.marlowe wrote:

>I think the answer to all of this would require a lot of code being 
>touched to either make it case fold, costing performance, or the 
>replacement of the default lower cased catalog with upper cased catalog.
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I'm not the one to decide, but it seems to me that this is not a good 
time to enter such a major change, and may never be. How terrible will 
it be if the system is per server (i.e. - one given to initdb?).

>A more comprehensive solution, one which allowed switching from upper 
>folding to lower folding to no folding, to case insensitive, or some 
>subset of those possibilities results in 
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>a:  slower backend performance, due to folding case for system catalogs
>b:  touching a helluva lot of backend code to make it possible to fold up 
>or down.
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Well, if it's only the shared catalogs that are affected, this may not 
be such a big problem (very hopeful tone?)

>I'm not 100% sure on this all, but that seems to be the point Tom and I 
>came to in our discussion, and neither of the two solutions seemed very 
>good at the time.
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>      Shachar

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