Re: Refactoring on DROP/ALTER SET SCHEMA/ALTER RENAME TO statement

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>> So the buildfarm broke due to this change, because citext does
>
>> Thanks for fixing it.  Should we revert the original change?
>
> I still think it's reasonable to remove the extra downcasing step,
> but we'll have to document it as a change.  For instance, spelling
> C as either "C" or 'C' would work differently now.  The fact that
> the former is downcased seems quite surprising to me, so I don't
> think anybody would say that this isn't a better definition, but
> undoubtedly it could force people to change their source files.

So, should we add a note to all the LANGUAGE command pages in the
manual?  Or just include this in the release notes?

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