>>> Félix Sánchez Rodríguez <fesanch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've figured out that it's not the same to use 'SELECT NICK FROM > USUARIOS' vs. 'SELECT "Nick" from "Usuarios"' In PostgreSQL the first is interpreted the same as: SELECT "nick" from "usuarios"; Note that this is different from the ANSI & ISO standards, which require it to be interpreted as: SELECT "NICK" FROM "USUARIOS"; Neither of the above would find a column "Nick" or a table "Usuarios". For maximum portability, you might want to always quote your identifiers, regardless of whether they are all uppercase, all lowercase, or mixed case. An alternative, which has worked for some, is to never quote your identifiers and always use lower case. I've seen software which breaks without the quotes on either capitalization, but the lowercase is currently more popular in more quarters, and seems to break less often. It's certainly safe it you're planning to target PostgreSQL and don't care about portability. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
