Do we want Bugzilla to be case-sensitive or case-insensitive?

Frédéric Buclin LpSolit at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 01:14:41 UTC 2005


>>Do we want Bugzilla to be case-sensitive or case-insensitive?
> 
> 
> insensitive.


On IRC, some of us came to the conclusion that choosing either 
PostgreSQL or MySQL is a strategical choice, depending of what companies 
want in terms of intrinsic properties. In the same way some users like 
*nix case-sensitiveness, some others prefer windows case-insensitiveness.

Forcing all comparisons to be case-insensitive would require to rewrite 
98% of all SQL queries!! .... or to find another way to force Pg to be 
case-insensitive. But it appears that is *not* possible to change this 
behavior in PostgreSQL, at all. I don't know how Oracle behaves, though.

No matter what we choose, it won't be a simple problem to fix. :(

LpSolit



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