Re: SQL Standards Compliance With Casexx

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> AFAIK, SQL says that an non-quoted identifier such as Foo is treated as
> FOO (case-folded to upper).  PostgreSQL currently treats it as foo
> (case-folded to lower). Quoted identifiers are not case-folded and are
> compared case-sensitive.
>
> So, for example my understanding of spec would say:

   Thank you very much for the complete explanation, Stephan.

> These seem to be complaining that there's already a table, view, index,
> etc with that name already. Is there one being created with a different
> case that's assuming that it'll preserve case rather than fold?

   That's what Josh pointed out. I totally missed that.

Many thanks,

Rich

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