Re: How TODO prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yazici@gmail.com> writes:
> > Returned column names from the backend were lowercased by the server
> > in this or that way. Furthermore, PQfnumber() makes not-quoted strings
> > downcasing on the client side and then performs the compare by using
> > the results returned from the backend. To sum up, at the moment I
> > couldn't see any possible solution for this TODO. (I'll be appreciated
> > to hear your suggestions on the case.) An un-fixable situation?
> 
> Really, PQfnumber shouldn't do any case folding at all; that's not in
> its charter if you ask me.  The problem is how to get there from here
> without too much compatibility pain.  Maybe invent a new routine that
> does it right and then deprecate the existing one?

TODO updated:

* Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
 PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically it has so we need a way to prevent it

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