On 10/17/2005 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Jan Wieck <JanWieck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
What is bad about leaving pg_catalog all lower case and expect everyone
to query the catalog quoted?
The fact that it will break every nontrivial client currently in
existence. Those quotes aren't there in the clients and we can't
suddenly mandate them to become there. Also, that approach does not
work for built-in functions (MAX, etc)
Ugh ... got me on the MAX part.
Jan
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