Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Raymond Toy: Case sensitivity bug with large objects! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Raymond Toy: Case sensitivity bug with large objects!
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Msg-id 9e7037c8d3c2701531910088cf935075
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In response to [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Raymond Toy: Case sensitivity bug with large objects!  ("Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>)
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>
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > The lack of case-sensitivity could cause tables that start with xinv* to
> > > be confused as large objects.
> > >
> > > What do we do?
>
> Could the xinv* names generated by postgres to support large objects
> have a slightly different name, for example starting with an underscore
> or a dot?

We could change large object names from xinv to _inv?  That makes sense.
pg_dump does not process large objects.

What do we do with 6.1?  How many people have tables that begin with
xinv?

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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