Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > This just clears up one aspect of variable handling in psql.
> > [ "variable names are case-sensitive" ]
> 
> I honestly wonder why this is suddenly of so much interest.  I hope no 
> one is going to question the fact that the command names are 
> case-sensitive.  Do we need a note abou that, too?

Patch applied.  I just added a sentence, rather than an new paragraph. 
I think the confusion is because SQL variable names aren't case
senstitive, so it is a little confusing.

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        underscores. See the section <xref
        linkend="APP-PSQL-variables"
        endterm="APP-PSQL-variables-title"> below for details.
+       Variable names are case-sensitive.
        </para>
  
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