On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> Greetings. I just built 6.1 on a Linux 2.0.29 (RedHat) machine, following
> the instructions to the letter. Everything looked fine until I went
> to access one of my databases. Some of them seem to be fine, but others
> have had the field names converted to all lower-case. When I dropped the
> table and re-created it, it still ended up with the field turned into
> lower case.
>
> I dumped the database with the dumpall command and restored as suggested
> in the installation instructions. Here's a sample session:
>
> xvscanpub=> CREATE TABLE ProjUser (Key int4, Name text) archive = none;
> CREATE
> xvscanpub=> COPY ProjUser WITH OIDS FROM stdin;
> Enter info followed by a newline
> End with a backslash and a period on a line by itself.
> >> 513147 1 jafo
> >> 513148 2 efm
> >> \.
> resetting connection
> xvscanpub=> select * from ProjUser;
> key|name
> ---+----
> (0 rows)
>
> I backed off to 6.0, but wanted to send in a report. Other than that,
> it looked fine...
Case sensitivity in tables/field names were removed in v6.1...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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