Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The only value to being case-sensitive in this area is to allow
> upper/lower case with different meanings, but I don't see us using
> that, so why do we bother caring about the case?
Because the units are what they are.
In broader terms, we may one day want to have other units or a
units-aware data type, so introducing incompatibilities now would be
unfortunate.
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Peter Eisentraut
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