Re: JDBC bug?

I haven't seen any evidence in this thread of a JDBC bug. The original
posting refered to calls in the DatabaseMetaData classes doing
toLowerCase(). This is appropriate because the DatabaseMetaData class
is querying the pg_* tables to get information about database objects,
thus since the backend stores the identifiers in lower case, therefore
the jdbc code needs to do a toLowerCase(). The followup below is more
of a complaint on how SQL is case insensitive and if you have created
your objects with quoted mixed case identifiers you need to access them
via quoted mixed case identifiers. I haven't seen any evidence that
basic SQL operations (select, insert, update, delete) have a bug in them.

thanks,
--Barry

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>>>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.
>>>
>>I think Nate's being kind calling this an annoyance. I may have missed
>>something in the docs, but I just spent a few frustrating hours confronting
>>a similar issue with tables of mixed case. Everything was working correctly
>>with my servlet, except when I referenced a column with a name like
>>questionID in a where clause. Note the casing. I had no idea this is what
>>was wrong until, other ideas exhausted, I recreated my query text with
>>pgadmin's query wizard and it put quotes around everything in the SQL it
>>generated.
>>
>>Is there a pqsql-jdbc log somewhere that this might have shown up? I was so
>>sure it was my java code (which in the end it was, sort of :) I never
>>bothered to check any Postgres logs. Would it have shown up somewhere
>>there? Either way, personally, I think this isn't the best behavior. I
>>don't want to get into a casing flame war, but, I would've expected an
>>exception if it couldn't figure out what was happening with the where
>>clause, something at least.
>>
>
> Yes, I agree, it clearly looks like a jdbc bug. If you have created
> mixed-case identifiers, the jdbc toLower call make accessing it
> impossible. If we can trust the case of the indentifier supplied, we
> can just put double-quotes around it to preserve the case as passed to
> the backend.
>
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