Re: quoted identifier behaviour - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: quoted identifier behaviour
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In response to Re: quoted identifier behaviour  (Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc>)
Responses Re: quoted identifier behaviour  (Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc>)
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Randall Smith wrote on 14.03.2007 18:59:
> I'm trying to get Postgresql to work with software that uses JDBC and
> Oracle for a large government project.  So I have to report that the
> application won't work with Postgresql because it (PG) doesn't adhere to
> the standard.  That's usually something I say about Oracle and MySQL.
> I'm an advocate of Postgresql and usually tout SQL compliance as a
> strength, so it bothers me that this is not in line to be corrected.

Then the software is not written well :)

DatabaseMetaData.storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() correctly tells the program that
PG stores everything in lowercase. So if a (JDBC based) software wants to be
truly multi-DBMS enabled, it *has* to retrieve those things from the driver.

Thomas

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