Re: [HACKERS] The case for preserving case.

2004-04-24 Thread emf
On Apr 24, 2004, at 11:17, Jan Wieck wrote: I don't think that we will break backward compatibility for existing PostgreSQL specific code in order to gain CamelCase+MySQL porting ease by adopting an even less standard compliant behaviour than we currently have. I understand and agree that breaki

Re: [HACKERS] The case for preserving case.

2004-04-24 Thread emf
On Apr 24, 2004, at 00:48, Tom Lane wrote: You do realize that any such patch would be at least a thousand times larger than that? I am coming from a state of ignorance past the fact that commenting out four lines of code appeared to create the behaviour I desired. I knew that just changing it to

Re: [HACKERS] The case for preserving case.

2004-04-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi EMF, emf wrote: Hello, postgresql hackers. All of this breaks when I start to use postgresql, because all of the attributes become lowercased. Well, I'm afraid that something will have to change in the app. Your email arrives while we are in the middle of a small war around the subject of c

[HACKERS] The case for preserving case.

2004-04-23 Thread emf
Hello, postgresql hackers. I am working with a client with a 20k record MySQL database (that will shortly expand to 100k/1m) and a few thousand lines of PHP code that does a lot of DB interaction. Their application, with a lot of relationships between data and a bunch of data integrity require