scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > stefan@extum.com writes:
> > > But anyway this is not so important, but why upper cases are bad ?
> >
> > It's well established that all-lower-case text is more readable than
> > all-upper-case ...
>
> Agreed. Absolutely. But, since the SQL standard says upper case,
> wouldn't it be useful to at least have a switch (run time, initdb time,
> or ./configure time???) called something like FOLDTOUPPER (in upper case
> of course :-)
>
> If it's an easy win I'd be willing to do it. I'm not the world's greatest
> C hacker, but I still remember enough of it to be competant.
Yea, I guess we could. I think the consensus is that the uppercase
default is so weird, we don't know anyone who would want to use it.
Would you?
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