Re: [HACKERS] case_preservation_and_insensitivity = on

On 25/02/17 09:02, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 2/24/17 12:28 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I think these are straw-man arguments, really.  Consider the actual use
>>> case for such a feature: it's for porting some application that was not
>>> written against Postgres to begin with.
>> I'm not sure that's totally true.  I think at least some requests for
>> this feature are intended at satisfying somebody's sense of
>> aesthetics.
>
> If I had $1 for every time I had to chase someone away from using 
> camelcase I'd be able to sponsor a key at the next conference. And 
> honetly I'd actually like to be able to use camelcase and still get 
> easy to read output from \d & co.
>
> IOW, this is definitely NOT driven just by porting efforts. I think 
> the only reason we don't hear more requests about it is people 
> (grudgingly) just muddle on without it.

I'd love to be able to successfully use camelcase for things like 
variable and table names in pg, without having to quote everything - but 
never felt it worthwhile to ask for it.


Cheers,

Gavin