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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:18:01 +0200
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
From: alwin <alwin@cs.nl>
Subject: case insensitive table names
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Dear mailing list,

I'm trying to convert a MsSQL database to a Postgres database, with DTS i can
convert the data between the databases. DTS creates case sensitive tables
(using quotes), exactly like i want it to be.

So far so good. But the current code uses queries without quotes, like
select * from Table; and not select * from "Table";. The Table gets 
converted to
lowercase and then compared (case sensitive) against the tables in the 
database.

This means i have to convert all the table names to lowercase, losing a lot 
of readability,
or i put quotes around all the table names in the current queries causing 
also a lot of
possible problems and unneeded changes.

Is there an easier fix for this? Does the SQL92/SQL3/SQL2003 specify 
unquoted table
names to be case-insensitive or does it say it needs to be converted to 
lowercase?

It would be great having a global flag to enable or disable case sensitive 
compares
everywhere.

Thanks.

Alwin