feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pete
Subject feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes
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Msg-id 4007544A.8080709@pointbiz.com
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Responses Re: feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
Re: feature request... case sensitivity without double  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Re: feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to make a feature request. If 
not hopefully I can be kindly pointed in that direction.

I have several project that use MySQL and I would like to port them to 
PostgreSQL unfortunately they use a naming convention which uses upper 
case and lower case letters
Example:
SELECT AccountID FROM Account

I am aware that if you enclose those table and column names with " then 
postgresql will take the case into consideration. Only problem is most 
people who have current MySQL project have not written their statements 
with " (MySQL parser uses no quotes of the ` back tick) and it would 
take considerable man power to convert each SQL statement.

Perhaps a feature, which is not set by default so it doesn't break 
current functionality, can be set so that when creating the database you 
can set a flag that will let postgresql know to parse column and table 
names that don't have double quotes and still keep the case information.

I'm sure this will help spure more adoption of Postgresql, because 
people with serious databases concerns can't use MySQL and for real 
production and large scale projects I've purchased commercial databases 
because the migration from MySQL to them was easier because of the 
different approach to parsing.

Thanks for your time,
Pete


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