Hello,
I'was trying to get meta data of a column and discovered that the column name is case sensitive though it should be
caseinsensitive. I don't know if this can be somehow determined by a configuration or environment change because I
believethat till recently it worked in a case-insensitive manner.
I've the table studna_monitor.mon_user_session with the column "username". The following code wrongly returns null
(notice"username".toUpperCase()):
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String col = null;
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mydb?user=me&password=secret";
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url);
DatabaseMetaData databaseMetaData = conn.getMetaData();
ResultSet columnsMD = databaseMetaData.getColumns(null, "studna_monitor", "mon_user_session",
"username".toUpperCase());
while(columnsMD.next()) {
col = columnsMD.getString("COLUMN_NAME");
}
return col;
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While the following returns the column name "username":
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...
ResultSet columnsMD = databaseMetaData.getColumns(null, "studna_monitor", "mon_user_session",
"username".toLowerCase());
...
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BTW, the metadata reports:
supportsMixedCaseIdentifiers: false
supportsMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers: true
(which is pretty much expected)
Driver: postgresql-8.3-604.jdbc3.jar, postgresql-jdbc3-8.2.jar (as distributed with Ubuntu, doesn't provide build
number)
Server: Postgres 8.2.6 for Solaris
Thank you.
Jakub Holy
maly.velky@email.cz
