Обсуждение: Bug #590: Migration to Postgres 7.2 impossible when capitals are used in database name

Ruud van den Brink (ruud@stress.utwente.nl) reports a bug with a severity of 1
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Short Description
Migration to Postgres 7.2 impossible when capitals are used in database name

Long Description
Hello,

I discovered a bug in the connect statements of postgresql 7.2. After a pg_dumpall in postgresql 7.1.3, upgrading to
Postgresql7.2 and an initdb, the following lines from the script, generated by pg_dumpall, cause a problem: 

---
\connect template1 postgres
CREATE DATABASE "iBBS-oud" WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII'; \connect iBBS-oud postgres
---

The database replies with:

FATAL 1: Database "ibbs-oud" does not exist in the system catalog.

The reason is, that the database is called "iBBS-oud" and not "ibbs-oud". The script contains the correct name of the
database,but postgres seems to convert the capitals in "iBBS-oud" to lowercase so it becomes "ibbs-oud" internally. 

It is however possible to connect to this database by means of starting psql with "psql -U postgres iBBS-oud". Connect
statementsin postgres itself all fail. But it's impossible to convert a set of huge databases from postgresql 7.1.3 to
version7.2 

Kind regards and keep up the good work,

Ruud van den Brink.

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pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> The reason is, that the database is called "iBBS-oud" and not "ibbs-oud". The script contains the correct name of the
database,but postgres seems to convert the capitals in "iBBS-oud" to lowercase so it becomes "ibbs-oud" internally. 

Yes, pg_dump fails to quote the database name properly.  This is already
fixed for 7.2.1.  You may care to grab current sources (see the nightly
snapshot tarballs in the FTP dev/ directory) and use the latest pg_dump
to perform the dump from your 7.1.3 server.  Or just edit the connect
statements in the dump you have.

            regards, tom lane