Re: DatabaseMetaData.getTables() is silently quoting table

[Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>]

This is because PostgreSQL allows the creation of case-sensitive table
names.

If you run:  CREATE TABLE MY_TABLE ...; 

then the created table name is my_table.

But if you run:  CREATE TABLE "MY_TABLE" ...;

then the created table name is MY_TABLE.

So in order for PG to differentiate between my_table and MY_TABLE, the
getTables() function has to be case-sensitive.

-- Mark

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 18:21 +0200, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  If I create table MY_TABLE (unquoted uppercase), then my_table
> (lowercase) is actually created. This is clearly documented, so fine.
> 
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS>
> 
> But now if I use .getTables(null, null, "MY_TABLE", null) to ask
> whether this table actually exists, the answer is "no" (empty) because
> .getTables() acts like I quoted the MY_TABLE identifier.
> 
> It's quite annoying to create a table and not be able to see it...
> 
> Tested with  postgresql-server.i686 8.0.7-1PGDG and 8.2dev-503
> Maybe this is a server-side issue?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
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