Re: Uppercase to lowercase trigger? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Angelico
Subject Re: Uppercase to lowercase trigger?
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Msg-id CAPTjJmqvsdMuaWnkbL5QtOofBfPY_tMSGcU2LKfmcvioXw_XyQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Uppercase to lowercase trigger?  (Chrishelring <christianhelring@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Chrishelring
<christianhelring@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´ve got some tables with column names in lowercase. Before updatering these
> tables I want to add a trigger that can convert these lowercase to
> uppercase, and when the tables are updates convert them back to lowercase..

Not entirely sure what you're looking for here, but in Postgres, if
you don't quote your column names, they are lowercased by default.

UPDATE some_table SET ColumnName = 'foo', COLUMNNAME2 = 'bar';

This will work if the table has "columnname" and "columnname2".

ChrisA

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