Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas

On 10/17/2005 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>> What is bad about leaving pg_catalog all lower case and expect everyone
>> to query the catalog quoted?
>
> The fact that it will break every nontrivial client currently in
> existence.  Those quotes aren't there in the clients and we can't
> suddenly mandate them to become there.  Also, that approach does not
> work for built-in functions (MAX, etc)

Ugh ... got me on the MAX part.


Jan

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