Re: SQL keywords are suddenly case sensitive

On 04/16/2013 07:31 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 04/16/2013 02:46 PM, Lee Hachadoorian wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> SQL seems to be behaving in a case-sensitive manner:
>>
>> universe=# select 1;
>>   ?column?
>> ----------
>>          1
>> (1 row)
>>
>> universe=# SELECT 1;
>> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "SELECT 1"
>> LINE 1: SELECT 1;
>>          ^
>> I cannot figure out how this happened, and Google is not helping because
>> all I'm getting is information about case-sensitivity in identifiers or
>> in string comparison. I didn't even think this was possible, as I've
>> always switched between lower case and upper case keywords, usually
>> using lower case while testing and upper case to prettify scripts that I
>> will be saving for reuse.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Does this behavior survive logging out and then back into a session?

It survives complete restart. (This is a laptop that I use for
development and analysis, not a high-availability server, so the first
thing I did when I realized my scripts started failing was reboot.)

>
> Do you have any other client using the database that exhibits this
> behavior?

Same behavior in both psql and pgAdmin.

Regards,
--Lee

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Lee Hachadoorian
Assistant Professor in Geography, Dartmouth College
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