Github user laurentgo commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/520#discussion_r106083106 --- Diff: exec/jdbc/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/jdbc/impl/DrillDatabaseMetaDataImpl.java --- @@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ private ServerMeta getServerMeta() throws SQLException { return serverMeta; } + /** + * The same as {@link DrillDatabaseMetaDataImpl#getServerMeta()} but updates server metadata for the every call + * @return server meta information + * @throws SQLException for error when getting server meta + */ + private ServerMeta getUpdatedServerMeta() throws SQLException { --- End diff -- There's nothing in the JDBC spec which says if this has to be refreshed when user session is changed manually. It seems that MySQL doesn't do a server call each time, but I haven't checked other drivers (not all databases allow to change the quoting identifier in the session). I would say it might not be necessary as someone who changed manually the quoting know that he/she is dealing with Drill and that he/she changed the the default quoting identifier. But people might have strong arguments in favor of refreshing...
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