Re: PQprepare case sensitive?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> I haven't looked into the sources yet, but PQprepare's behaviour in my
> new ecpglib code suggests that the statement name is case sensitive. Is
> this by design?

Yes, it's assumed that any quoting/dequoting has already happened by the
time the name gets into the protocol message.

> I wonder because a statement like this cannot be
> deallocated afterwards since the parser is case insensitive with regard
> to statement names.

Sure it can --- use quotes.

			regards, tom lane