Re: BUG #3894: JDBC DatabaseMetaData.getTables is inconsistently case-sensitive with schema name

From: Adam Hardy <adam(dot)hardy(at)cyberspaceroad(dot)com>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #3894: JDBC DatabaseMetaData.getTables is inconsistently case-sensitive with schema name
Date: 2008-02-12 15:10:19
Message-ID: 47B1B6DB.8070509@cyberspaceroad.com
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Kris,
thanks for the advice.

Because this rules out certain important features of the JPA framework
such as native SQL queries, you may want to prioritize this issue. I
will have to use Oracle or mySQL until PostgreSQL can rectify things.

Thanks and regards
Adam

Kris Jurka on 01/02/08 20:45, wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
>> it seems to me from what you just said that PostgreSQL server and
>> JDBC driver require the schema name to be lower case deliberately,
>> and that any given name that is not all lower case is converted to
>> lower case by the server or the driver. Am I correct?
>>
>
> Anything that is not quoted is converted to lowercase. This is
> contrary to the SQL spec (it says to convert it to uppercase), but
> that's unlikely to change anytime soon. A JDBC app can portably
> detect this case by checking
> DatabaseMetaData.storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() and adjusting the other
> metadata calls appropriately.
>
> Kris Jurka
>

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