Andrew Sullivan ajs
Wed Oct 26 11:52:15 PDT 2005
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:20:27AM +1000, Philip Yarra wrote:
> tables differentiated only by the case of the name (e.g. ACCOUNT, account and 
> aCcOuNt) in the same database and schema. I reckon that's a corner-case, but 
> I'm willing to revise my opinion if someone can provide me with a real-life 
> example.

It makes no difference if it's a corner case.  Slony is supposed to
provide generic support, which means we _have_ to support this.

> Well yeah, this is my point: I'm a software developer, I'm used to things 
> blowing up in my face. It still took me by surprise, and cost me time 
> figuring out why it occurred. I suspect people less-accustomed to PostgreSQL 
> might take longer to figure it out, or worse yet, give up on using PostgreSQL 
> and Slony. I want to remove obstacles to adoption.

Right.  It appears to me that this is a documentation issue.  

A

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