It has to otherwise PostgreSQL will fold the identifier to lowercase.
I prefer mixed-case multi-word identifiers rather than identifiers with words separated by underscors but I think I will use lowercase everywhere from now on :/
Also, I created a schema called global (no mixed case) and now pgAdminIII refers to all objects in this schema as "global".objectname
Global is probably a reserved word, so must be quoted if used.
you guessed right. I checked up on it at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/sql-keywords-appendix.html
Doesn't seem like there are many words left in the english language that aren't reserved ;) I didn't realise there were so many [non-]reserved words. Postgres reserves GLOBAL as a "non-reserved" word as opposed to a "reserved" word (just read the docs from the above link).
A print out of this list now stays by my side...
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