Re: Case-sensitive problem in AS clause?

From: Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au>
To: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: dmp <danap(at)ttc-cmc(dot)net>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case-sensitive problem in AS clause?
Date: 2012-07-17 03:20:31
Message-ID: 5004D9FF.7070002@ringerc.id.au
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On 07/17/2012 02:48 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Ok, I just looked up the tutorial and it really is whether the value
> stored in the column is case sensitive, not the name of the column.
>
> Yet another serious ambiguity in the API spec.

Yay, won't THAT be fun to implement when Pg its self doesn't know
whether any given type is case-sensitive or not (eg 'text' vs 'citext')
and doesn't have the concept of per-column case sensitivity at all.

What's the right thing to return here? True unless 'citext'?

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Craig Ringer

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