On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
> If this is happening on Windows, we truly can not do anything about
> it.
>
> You could help there by forcing all table names to be lower-case by
> starting mysql service with a corresponding option.
No, it's happening on Linux. Here's a transcript of what happens. I create
a table called "test" with a column called "HELLO". Then when I execute
"modify column hello", the case of the column becomes "hello". This will
cause perl scripts that use $sth->fetchrow_hashref to fail.
pmak@trapezoid [/home/animel/www/include]# mysql
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 813 to server version: 3.23.36
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer
mysql> create table test (HELLO int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)
mysql> alter table test modify column hello int;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql> describe test;
+-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| hello | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
+-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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