Re: Why does app fail?

I have downloaded it, thanks.

I'm not sure about this "foldtoupper" idea (particularly as they are also talking about leaving the tablenames alone in the system tables.

What I don't understand is why the system can't be told simply to be case sensitive. That way, if a table is created as MyTaBlE then it is called MyTaBlE without requiring quotes, or am I missing something here?

Paul

>>> Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com> 25/02/2004 14:40:41 >>>
Just a couple of notes:

Make sure that you are using the latest available
version of the ODBC driver. You can get the latest
snapshot of the .dll from Hiroshi's page:

http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/

There was discussion of, and agreement in principle
to, a user setting "foldtoupper", which would take
care of your problem, and all similar ones. But
apparently that has not been picked up by anyone. See
the following:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=15001.1027109813%40sss.pgh.pa.us&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dfoldtoupper%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dcomp.databases.postgresql.*

I am thinking that providing this option would be
important if we want to encourage more people to port
their apps from other RDBMS's. But I am not
comptetent to contribute to that, so this is all I
will say about it.

--- Paul Simpson <Paul(dot)Simpson(at)spgs(dot)org> wrote:
>
>
> >>>> Shridhar Daithankar
> <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> 25/02/2004
> 10:31:16 >>>
> >On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:38, Paul Simpson
> wrote:
> >> Thank you for the advice, unfortunately, that
> isn't an option, you see I
> >> didn't write the application and so cannot
> control the calls it makes. What
> >> I need is for PG to do as it's told!
> >>
> >> I can only think of three solutions which I'd
> appreciate comments / advice
> >> on....
> >>
> >> 1) Hack PG Source and re-compile to make
> upper-case the default table name.
> >> 2) Hack the ODBC driver source to get it to
> always add quotes to table
> >> names. 3) Given that the statement seems to be
> looking for the table name
> >> in one of the system tables, put a trigger on
> that table to automatically
> >> convert any new additions to upper case.
> >
> >I vote for option 2 It might take care of any other
> complaints such as
> >mismatch in locale etc. as well. I don't know
> really.
> >
> >Do we need to submit a TODO to hackers or on ODBC
> List? I am not too sure..
> >
> >Shridhar
> >
>
> Having spent a lot of time searching on the 'net, I
> suspect this would be a very popular option for a
> lot of people. What are the chances of getting this
> done fairly quickly, do you think?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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