That was pretty much the argument that carried the day in the earlier...
thread. However, I'm not sure how many people really use PQfnumber
(as opposed to hard-wiring assumptions about returned column numbers),
and it would seem that the intersection of those people with people who
use mixed-case column names may be nearly the empty set. If a lot of
people did this, the behavior would have been discussed and documented
(or changed) long ago. So I'm not convinced that we'd really break
very many apps by changing to the behavior that everyone seems to agree
is more sensible.
pgAdmin3 beta testers found it...So other than the shortlived 6.2 release, releases before 6.5 had the behavior Peter wants. I find it interesting that it took more than a year for anyone to notice that the putative dequoting+downcasing logic installed for 6.3 didn't work.
If you change it, please give me a chance to code it version-aware so quoting/non-quoting can be performed dependent on libpq in use.
Regards, Andreas
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