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To: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
cc: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PQprepare case sensitive? 
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Comments: In-reply-to Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
	message dated "Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:33:51 +0200"
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:56:42 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
> I haven't looked into the sources yet, but PQprepare's behaviour in my
> new ecpglib code suggests that the statement name is case sensitive. Is
> this by design?

Yes, it's assumed that any quoting/dequoting has already happened by the
time the name gets into the protocol message.

> I wonder because a statement like this cannot be
> deallocated afterwards since the parser is case insensitive with regard
> to statement names.

Sure it can --- use quotes.

			regards, tom lane