Re: DatabaseMetaData.getTables() problem

Kris,

I can't think of anything better.  So yes please submit a patch for this.

thanks,
--Barry


Kris Jurka wrote:
> This has not been fixed.  Currently the driver is doing something along
> the lines of
>
> " WHERE c.relname LIKE " + tableNamePattern.toLowerCase();
>
> This masks the problem of a user supplying an uppercase version of a
> tablename that was case folded to lower, but does not work when they
> really want an uppercase table name.
>
> I believe that adding a LOWER() to c.relname is the best temporary
> solution until we figure out a better way to handle case sensitivity.
>
> Barry, If you believe this is the way to go I will work up a patch for
> this an similar places in the driver.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Barry Lind wrote:
>
>
>>Wolfgang,
>>
>>Can you try this test using the 7.3beta3 build of the driver from
>>jdbc.postgresql.org?  I think this should be fixed in the latest build.
>>
>>thanks,
>>--Barry
>>
>>
>>w.winter wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>on testing our auto-configuration persistence framework ACP against
>>>PostgreSQL we found the following problem:
>>>
>>>There is a table A625431658_Person1, created as quoted mixed case
>>>identifier.
>>>
>>>I do:
>>>databaseMetaData.getTables(null, null, "%", new String[] {"TABLE"})
>>>--> A625431658_Person1 is in the ResultSet. OK.
>>>
>>>I do:
>>>databaseMetaData.getTables(null, null, "A625431658_Person1", new String[]
>>>{"TABLE"})
>>>--> A625431658_Person1 is NOT in the ResultSet.
>>>
>>>I do:
>>>databaseMetaData.getTables(null, null, "%erson1", new String[] {"TABLE"})
>>>--> A625431658_Person1 is in the ResultSet. OK.
>>>
>>>Seems there is a problem with mixed case ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Wolfgang
>>>
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