Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Variable case database names

On 2000-01-20, Tom Lane mentioned:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > There is some code in libpq which converts all database names to
> > lower-case, unless it's double quoted. That seems a little ill-conceived
> > to me,
> 
> I think you are probably right.  The backend might try to lowercase the
> name when it gets it, but it seems like libpq shouldn't be doing so
> (any more than it's responsible for downcasing identifiers used in
> SQL commands).
> 
> If the backend *does* lowercase the DB name used in a connect command,
> is there any way to use a mixed-case DB name?  I'm not sure there is...

The backend doesn't lower case it. I removed that part in libpq and now
it works fine.

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