On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:06:12PM +0100, Jan Oksfeldt Jonasen wrote:
> At 01:40 PM 8/6/2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >You need to double-quote the names or they will be converted to lower
> >case.
> >
>
> Thank you both. The reason why the initial table creation have quoted
> columns names is that it's generated by a program we use for schema
> creation. I'm currently adding to it so it can support Postgres too and the
> way columns are set up was more or less copied from the MS Sql
> implementation.
>
> I'm really not used to databases being so case sensitive, neither Oracle or
> MS Sql Server is that, but I'll keep this thing in mind moving along. Quite
> impressed with the response time, or maybe it was just a too easy question
> :-)
Well, it's only case-sensetive if you ask for it, ie by quoting. The basic
rule is:
Either always quote or never quote.
Always quote = case-sensetive
Never quote = case-insensetive
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