Re: SELECT problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: SELECT problem
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Msg-id 3D160095.4080405@joeconway.com
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In response to SELECT problem  (David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>)
List pgsql-general
Tom Lane wrote:
> If the original report is correct then SQL Server matches names
> case-insensitively (at least when they're not quoted), which seems
> a much larger departure from the spec behavior to me.  For example,
> I'd think they'd have to reject table definitions that contain
> columns named both "foo" and "FOO", else they'd have
> effectively-duplicate column names.  Can anyone verify their behavior?
>

MSSQL Server lets you choose *on installation* whether you want
case-sensitive or case-insensitive behavior (at least through MSSQL 7,
not sure about MSSQL 2000). If you pick the latter, both identifiers and
data are case-insensitive. Even with MSSQL Server, if a case-sensitive
install is picked, I believe it would break this app. (which is clearly
flawed anyway).

JOe


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