Re: TODO Item: Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted, identifiers

Russell Smith wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Russell Smith <mr-russ@pws.com.au> writes:
>>  
>>> As an attempt at a first PostgreSQL patch, I'd like to see if I can 
>>> do anything about this issue.
>>>     
>>
>> Trying that as a first patch is a recipe for failure... the short answer
>> is that no one can think of a solution that will be generally 
>> acceptable.
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
>>   
> What makes this change particularly challenging?  The fact that nobody 
> has agreed on how it should work, or the actual coding?
>
>

The widespread code impact of any change is a strong indicator against 
doing this as a first patch. But newbie or not, as Tom says, nobody 
should be starting to design, let alone cut code, until the actual 
desired behaviour is agreed.

cheers

andrew