Re: Case sensitivity?

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, dfx wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
>
> I have a little problem:
>
> - Contest: Server side: Linux Fedora core 4 with PostgreSQL v. 8.0
> Client side: both Linux Fedora core 4 with pgAdmin III v.
> 1.4 and/or Windows 2000 server vith pgAdmin III v. 1.4
>
> - I Made a table:
>
> CREATE TABLE "Accoglienza"
> (
> "IdAccoglienza" int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT
> nextval('public."Accoglienza_IdAccoglienza_seq"'::text),
> "IdCongresso" int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
> CONSTRAINT "Accoglienza_Pk" PRIMARY KEY ("IdAccoglienza")
> )
> WITHOUT OIDS;
>
> if I try "INSERT INTO Accoglienza (IdCongresso) VALUES (23)"
>
> I get an error "ERROR: la relazione "accoglienza" non esiste" (The relation
> "accoglienza does not exist")
>
> please note the change of the case of "A" to "a";
>
> if I rename the table to "accoglienza" the error disappear, but arise
> another error on "IdAccoglienza" that change in "idaccoglienza". (i.e. all
> converted to lower case)
>
> The same error arise with window client and linux client.
>
> How I can set case-insensitive the system, or avoid the conversion to lower
> case?

Create the table without closing the relation's name with doble quotes:

CREATE TABLE Accoglienza
(
IdAccoglienza int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT
nextval('public.Accoglienza_IdAccoglienza_seq'::text),
IdCongresso int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
CONSTRAINT Accoglienza_Pk PRIMARY KEY (IdAccoglienza)
)
WITHOUT OIDS;

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