| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | prlw1(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Variable case database names |
| Date: | 2000-01-23 01:30:07 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0001230145500.3007-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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On 2000-01-20, Tom Lane mentioned:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > There is some code in libpq which converts all database names to
> > lower-case, unless it's double quoted. That seems a little ill-conceived
> > to me,
>
> I think you are probably right. The backend might try to lowercase the
> name when it gets it, but it seems like libpq shouldn't be doing so
> (any more than it's responsible for downcasing identifiers used in
> SQL commands).
>
> If the backend *does* lowercase the DB name used in a connect command,
> is there any way to use a mixed-case DB name? I'm not sure there is...
The backend doesn't lower case it. I removed that part in libpq and now
it works fine.
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