On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 7:09 PM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> I was just wondering when it might be time to stop being lenient in psql and instead reject malformed identifiers.
I suppose that I probably wouldn't have chosen this behavior in a
green field situation. But Hyrum's law tells us that there are bound
to be some number of users relying on it. I don't think that it's
worth inconveniencing those people without getting a clear benefit in
return.
Being lenient here just doesn't have much downside in practice, as
evidenced by the total lack of complaints about that lenience.
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Peter Geoghegan