Re: JDBC bug?

> 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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