From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Dana Powers <dana@fphome.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@hub.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199909201632.MAA05831@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37E659BA.A1BA8EFF@fphome.com>
> > > I am evaluating whether it is possible to migrate our Contact manager
> > > system to Postgres on Linux, but I am having difficulty because the
> > > client software was most moronically programmed to access tables using
> > > wildly different case structures, i.e. a table might be created
> > > 'MYTABLE', and accessed 'mytable', 'MyTable' or 'MYTABLE' depending on
> > > the context. Is there anyway to disable case-sensitivity in this case,
> > > either through Postgres config, or the ODBC drivers? I have no access to
> >
> > We have no trouble accessing tables with different case. TABLE, Table,
> > table and taBLe are all the same to us, unless you put the table name in
> > double-quotes.
>
> The problem is, if you create a table without "", the table name
> defaults to lower case, and all non ""ed references to the table also
> default to all lower case but if you create a table with ""s you cannot
> access it unless you specify all references to it also in ""s. My
> question is, is there anyway to nullify the "" behavior and set all
> tables to lowercase?
So you are creating with quotes, but want to access it without quotes?
Can't do that. Why not just remove the quotes from the queries? I
suppose you could hack out the quote stuff to force everything to
lowercase, even if it has quotes.
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