The name of the column is not always case sensitive in fact postgresql
all names are folded to lower case unless quoted
Dave Cramer
dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:49 PM, David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-
>> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of dmp
>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 12:05 PM
>> To: Laurent Mazuel; PostgreSQL JDBC
>> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Case-sensitive problem in AS clause?
>>
>> Again as the as identifier is not quoting it default to the default
> behavior for
>> assignment. As far as the isCaseSensitive() it is found that the method in
> the
>> Pgjdbc, org/postgresql/jdbc2/AbstractJdbc2ResultSetMetaData.java is:
>>
>> /*
>> * Does a column's case matter? ASSUMPTION: Any field that is
>> * not obviously case insensitive is assumed to be case sensitive
>> *
>>
>> >
>> > Then, the column name is changed from StudentId to studentid, but the
>> > "isCaseSensitive" flag is "true". I think it is not correct, since it
>> > is impossible from now, when a user ask for the StudentId column to
>> > retrieve it from a resultset. The "isCaseSensitive" don't authorize to
>> > accept the string StudentId as a valid column name for the studentid
>> > column in the ResultSet.
>>
>> Recommed you quote AS "StudentID" to get the behavior you desire.
>>
>> danap.
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> Does the "isCaseSensitive(int)" function return whether the "value" stored
> in the column is case-sensitive or does it return whether the "name" of the
> column is case-sensitive?
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> The OP is using it to determine whether the "name" is case-sensitive - which
> it is always.
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> My assumption is that it would indicate whether the "value" is
> case-sensitive - which is also true because varchar/text is case-sensitive.
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> The fact that different fields may or may not be case-sensitive supports
> this since the "case-sensitive" property of a column "name" should be
> constant throughout the database/product.
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> David J.
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