Re: case-insensitivity of keywords are hardly documented

Jean-Luc Hainaut <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/02/2020 20:08, Aapo Rantalainen wrote:
> Hi, I'm just doing some 'software archeology' and I found that:
> on Nov 21 01:02:00 2004
> FossilOrigin-Name: ac72a1d5518f7b505ae2a1bd3be3d71db461ae7e
> git: f8565825622a1ed48bdaa835968a1137b2ffa593
>
> This sentence have been dropped out of documentation:
> "Keyword matching in SQLite is case-insensitive."
>
> https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/f8565825622a1ed48bdaa835968a1137b2ffa593#diff-b43337792fa9656f4e2ae1351e18bee6L1556
>
> Can anybody say what happened at that time? This sentence seems to not
> been there ever since. Just by using SQLite man can say that keywords
> are case-insensitive, but why it is not documented explicitly anymore?

Keyword case-insensitivity is a requirement of the SQL standard(s), not 
an SQLite feature. One can suppose that removing this from SQLite info 
was just a way to remove noise from SQLite documentation.

J-L Hainaut

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