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applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of
where the database server resides.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ When specified on the command line, user and databases names have
+ their case preserved &mdash; the presence of spaces or special
+ characters might require quoting. Table names and other identifiers
+ do not have their case preserved, except where documented, and
+ might require quoting.
+ </para>
</partintro>
&clusterdb;