Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: Field names upper case - true of firebird 2.0 also? |
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Author | Mike Dewhirst |
Post date | 2005-05-09T22:32:41Z |
Kjell Rilbe wrote:
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soon?
Mike
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>Is unquoted mixed case likely to make it into the SQL standard any time
> We recently had a huge discussion on this subject in conjunction with
> the issue of national characters.
>
> I think the consensus (well...) was:
>
> - For unquoted identifiers, store the names in uppercase but ignore case
> whenever the identifier is used. Also, only allow plain 7 bit ascii.
>
> - For quoted identifiers, store the names as specified. Case will be
> significant when the identifier is used. Also, allow all(?) unicode
> characters in the identifier.
>
> Anything else will cause problems.
>
> Kjell
soon?
Mike