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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephane Paquin <selt@philosophiebleue.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bug report
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:38:33 -0500
Message-ID: <3702.1041539913@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JCEELJEIAONGDEKLBPAMIEOOCAAA.selt@philosophiebleue.com>
References: <JCEELJEIAONGDEKLBPAMIEOOCAAA.selt@philosophiebleue.com>

"Stephane Paquin" <selt@philosophiebleue.com> writes:
> There appears to be a tolower(str) expression ran against the content of the
> connection string in the Pg::connectdb module.

The source code appears to believe this is a feature.  Pg.pm documents it:

When opening a connection a given database name is always converted to 
lower-case, unless it is surrounded by double quotes.

I'd call it a misfeature myself, but it's probably too late to change.

			regards, tom lane



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