Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity
Date
Msg-id 199909200405.AAA06865@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Case sensitivity  (Dana Powers <powersdp@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu>)
List pgsql-general
> I am evaluating whether it is possible to migrate our Contact manager
> system to Postgres on Linux, but I am having difficulty because the
> client software was most moronically programmed to access tables using
> wildly different case structures, i.e. a table might be created
> 'MYTABLE', and accessed 'mytable', 'MyTable' or 'MYTABLE' depending on
> the context. Is there anyway to disable case-sensitivity in this case,
> either through Postgres config, or the ODBC drivers? I have no access to

We have no trouble accessing tables with different case.  TABLE, Table,
table and taBLe are all the same to us, unless you put the table name in
double-quotes.


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