Philip Yarra <philip at utiba.com> writes:

> So is the quoting to preserve case actually desirable in this function?

Perl doesn't have case-insensitive strings, while SQL has
case-insensitive (unless quoted) identifiers.  There's a fundamental
mismatch there that means someone is going to be unhappy.  Making the
Perl stuff fold case would mean that people who use mixed case
identifiers and quote them consistently would lose.

-Doug