Subject Re: [firebird-support] Upper case behaviour
Author Doug Chamberlin
At 02:42 PM 12/4/2007, Martijn Tonies wrote:
> > Along with Eugen Konkov, I would like clarification of where case
> > preservation would cause problems with tools that assume identifiers
>pulled
> > from metadata can always be quoted. Seems like it should not be a problem.
>
>It will be a problem.
>
>Case preserving, and then quoting and re-creating objects leads to
>case sensitive objects.

Sorry, but I still don't understand. Can you present a specific example?

Are you thinking of a sequence where un-quoted identifiers are used first
and then quoting is then used with them later. Is this mixing of styles the
thing that causes the problem?