Hi, I have a patch that I'm hoping might be useful to PHP developers, at least those using PostgreSQL. The patch provides case folding of string keys during hash lookups. The need for this comes from ...
We're transitioning from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and like many, we use camel casing for naming tables and columns in our db. In PostgreSQL, (unquoted) table and column names are case folded to lower case, so where we currently have $row['someForeignId'], we would need to rewrite the key to 'someforeignid'. Besides being a lesson that we should use _ naming in the future, it was clear there was no quick solution, we'd be forced to modify many lines of code, and possibly end up with less readability. Instead, I added a caseFold flag to the HashTable struct, which is later checked in zend_hash_find() where, if configured, case folding of the key is performed before hash lookup. My question to the list is, can this functionality be added in a way that doesn't adversely effect developers who won't use it, but helps us PostgreSQL users and anyone else who might find it useful? Judging from my searches on the subject, it's not an uncommon impedance for PHP/PostgreSQL users. thanks, Dave
