Re: \dt shows table but \d <table> says the table doesn't exist ?

I really don’t care enough to try and actually make converts here.  It would have been a perfectly justifiable design choice to make our “pattern” matching case-insensitive by default, probably with a case-sensitive mode and no need to hack up quoting rules that are unique to it.  It’s a find feature and search benefits from case-insensitivity.  There isn’t anything so compelling about the current behavior that it seems like the superior choice.  But maybe you are right and I just lack sufficient real-world experience to see things differently.

I also get not wanting to change behavior at this point though I’d welcome a modifier like “*” (like the ~* operator) to enable case-insensitive matching.

David J.