[Gdal-dev] RE: ogr2ogr and casing on PG table names

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Tue Jun 26 16:27:03 EDT 2007


Richard Matsunaga wrote:
> I guess here is my answer:
>  
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1431
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Richard Matsunaga [mailto:richard.matsunaga at waypointinfo.com]
>     *Sent:* June 26, 2007 2:34 PM
>     *To:* 'gdal-dev'
>     *Subject:* ogr2ogr and casing on PG table names
> 
>     I've just built GDAL myself from trunk and found that ogr2ogr no
>     longer respects the case of a file name when converting to a PG
>     database.
>      
>     I was previously using the ogr2ogr from FWTools 1.1.1 and it keeps
>     the case of the filename.
>      
>     I'm wondering if this was intentional or if I've missed an option
>     somewhere in the build config?

Richard,

Right, the default behavior changed.  Preserving the case of table
and field names seemed to be making live difficult for most folks.  But
using LAUNDER=NO you can preserve the case if you need this.

Best regards,
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