RE: [GENERAL] problem of upper/lower case in table names

From: "Taral" <taral(at)cyberjunkie(dot)com>
To: "Jay O'Connor" <joconnor(at)roadrunner(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] problem of upper/lower case in table names
Date: 1998-11-17 21:55:22
Message-ID: 001001be1274$f9b2bf20$8a14f7d0@taral.dobiecenter.com
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> >i've got this annoying problem : if you create a table with an uppercase
> >name, postgres transforms it in lower case. After that, if you try to
> >retrieve the primary keys for this table ( still using the uppercase
> >name as argument ) using the JDBC driver
> >DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys(), it always return an empty result set
> >since the SQL command used in the driver requests a case sensitive match
> >for the table name ( and bc.relname ~ table ).
> >I've a workaround in the driver ( using bc.relname ~* table ) but i'd
> >like to know who's fault it is ( mine or postgres ) ....
> >Thanks for your advices & help

Try quoting the names... i.e. CREATE TABLE "TEST" etc.

Taral

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