Re: Case problem

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Josh Samuels <loadexfa(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case problem
Date: 2001-10-23 22:14:05
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0110231513070.52783-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Josh Samuels wrote:

> I have tables with different case in them, for example Customers and
> CustomerID is a column in that table. When I try to access the table or
> column in either a php script or psql is converts everything to lowercase
> and then I can't use them...why! Doesn't Postgres support case? I can't
> read my code if everything is in lowercase. Thank you in advance.

If you want to use mixed case names place them in double quotes and
postgres will leave the case the same. However, you'll always need to
use the double quotes in order to find the tables/columns/etc...

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