Re: JDBC bug?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nate Gelbard <gelbardn(at)tripwire(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: JDBC bug?
Date: 2001-11-26 18:30:24
Message-ID: 200111261830.fAQIUOH29986@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Hi,
>
> I've found an annoyance with the postgresql JDBC driver (from the 7.1.3
> release).
>
> Pardon if this has been asked before, but the web archives are offline...
>
> In org/postgresql/jdbc2/DatabaseMetaData.java, there are several lines
> that call toLowerCase() on the table string names. This causes 'table
> unknown' erros when accessing tables with mixed case in the name. This
> popped out at me when trying to use the XML-DBMS package and also
> DbVisualizer.
>
> Also, when using the pgsql shell, \d createdBy returns table unknown,
> but \d "createBy" returns the right info.
>
> So does postgres not support mixed case in table names, or the backend
> does but the clients dont, or what?

Well, we support mixed case identifiers, but they need to be
double-quoted, as you saw. The \d behavior looks correct. The jdbc
issue looks more complicated because we are forcing lowercase in the
jdbc code. Perhaps some jdbc folks can comment on that.

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