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> There is some code in libpq which converts all database names to
> lower-case, unless it's double quoted. That seems a little ill-conceived
> to me, since you'd actually have to pass it something like
> PGconnectdb("dbname=\"Newnham\"");
>
> If anything, this would make it inconvenient it psql, because you'd have
> to write
> \c '"Newnham"'
> since
> \c "Newnham"
> is interpreted differently.
>
> Does anyone have an explanation for this? Why not leave the name as is?
We do the same thing with queries, right? We force identifiers to lower
case unless quoted.
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