Re: "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names

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From: "Whatever Deep" <whatever(dot)deep(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names
Date: 2007-11-03 23:40:42
Message-ID: 4438f1690711031640t759aa734i25dc5b9ff7979e33@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,

This question may sound dumb, but I would like to know if using
"MixedCase sensitive quoted" names instead of lowercase names for
object names has any negative hit to the database performance.

Thanks!


From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Whatever Deep" <whatever(dot)deep(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names
Date: 2007-11-04 01:45:37
Message-ID: 3369.1194140737@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Whatever Deep" <whatever(dot)deep(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This question may sound dumb, but I would like to know if using
> "MixedCase sensitive quoted" names instead of lowercase names for
> object names has any negative hit to the database performance.

I can't imagine you could measure any performance difference ...
the two cases involve slightly different code paths in scan.l,
but after that it doesn't matter.

regards, tom lane