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Re: Proposal to Compile a 256-Byte Identifier Length Version Alongside the Current 64-Byte Version

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, David HJ <chuxiongzhong@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-11T05:56:54Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 10.10.23 08:22, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>> Apart from that, it is a good idea to use table names that are standard 
>> SQL identifiers, so that you don't have to double quote them all the time.

> FWIW, the Chinese character sequences posted here would be valid 
> unquoted identifiers if PostgreSQL implemented standard SQL 
> correctly/completely.

I'm pretty sure they're valid unquoted identifiers today,
because by and large we'll take any non-ASCII as identifier
characters.  Conforming to the letter of the spec would
reduce, not increase, the set of strings we'll call identifiers.

			regards, tom lane