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Re: Folding of case of identifiers

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Niels Jespersen <NJN@xxxxxx> writes:
> According to https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html, "Key words and unquoted identifiers are case insensitive." And "SQL identifiers and key words must begin with a letter (a-z, but also letters with diacritical marks and non-Latin letters) or an underscore (_). Subsequent characters in an identifier or key word can be letters, underscores, digits (0-9), or dollar signs ($)."

> So far so good. Non-latin letters are included, which I take to also include the danish letters æøå/ÆØÅ. 

> However, name-folding is odd for these letters. Of these three create tables, the two first succeed, the last one does not (G and g is equivalent, Æ and æ is not). 

Whether non-ASCII characters get downcased is very context dependent.
You've not mentioned the database encoding or the locale (LC_CTYPE)
setting, but both of those are relevant.  Basically, in a single-byte
encoding we'll apply tolower() to identifier characters; but we don't
attempt to case-fold multi-byte characters at all.  This logic is pretty
hoary, dating from before Unicode became widespread, but I'd be hesitant
to change it now.

			regards, tom lane






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