"Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 9/3/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There seems fairly clear use-case for allowing A-Z a-z 0-9 and
>> underscore (while CVS head rejects 0-9 and underscore).
> The problem with allowing uppercase letters is that on some
> filesystems foo and Foo are the same file, and on others they are not.
> This may lead to obscure portability problems where code worked fine
> on Unix and then fails when the database is running on Windows.
Yeah, good point. So far it seems that a-z 0-9 and underscore cover the
real use-cases, so what say we just allow those for now? It's a lot
easier to loosen up later than tighten up ...
regards, tom lane
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