Re: Associative arrays and case sensitivity

From: Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:18:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Associative arrays and case sensitivity
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Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com>: > > > What's the general felling to return column names in the same case for > > all drivers? I remember a time, when I needed to port a postgres app to > > oracle with phplib, and having this was very helpful. > > I'm uneasy about it breaking things, since it would mean you couldn't use the > returned column names to build a query for a case-sensitive database. > I found that situation more hard to occur than the habitual change from one database to other. Any way, we could use lower case columns on case-sensitive databases only when the "optimize as portability" option is set to don't loose performance or compatibility. Tomas V.V.Cox

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