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Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

Dennis Björklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>

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From: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>, Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-24T05:52:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> > First I thought that one can store the string with case all the time, and
> > just convert when needed (when comparing identifiers).
> 
> People keep suggesting these random not-quite-standard behaviors, but
> I fail to see the point.  Are you arguing for exact standards
> compliance, or not? 

That was me making conversation, pointing out something that does not 
work. Since it does not work I don't want it to be implemented. And with 
work I mean not follow the standard.
 
For something to follow standard it has to behave the correct way to the 
outside, how it's implemented is a different matter. The above does not 
work. Period.

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/Dennis Björklund