Do we want Bugzilla to be case-sensitive or

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Nov 6 03:27:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:25:36 -0800
Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:10 -0800, Benton, Kevin wrote:
> > For things like product and component names, in PostgreSQL, you could
> > decide to store it in two forms, one already converted to lower case,
> > and another in mixed-case format.
> 
> 	Yeah, we discussed this as an option. :-) Believe me, Tomas and I went
> over everything. I could show you our ICQ logs, this was the one
> "unsolvable" problem we ran into.

Surely this is in the case of "don't do that"? Component and product
names are rarely touched and should only really be touched by clueful
people. Accidental duplicates are both obvious and fairly easily
rectified.

-d



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