Please try with Lift 2.0-SNAPSHOT.  We made a number of significant fixes to
Schemifier over the course of the year including improving support for
case-sensitive RDBMS.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM, aw <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that I discovered that a bug was introduced that
> breaks Schemifier with Oracle...
>
> First of all, Oracle's JDBC driver has the odd behavior of being case
> sensitive when it comes to acquiring metadata.  For example:
> DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(null, "MYSCHEMA", "MYTABLE", null) is not
> the same as DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(null, "MYSCHEMA", "myTable",
> null)...  In fact, the latter option yields no results...
>
> Well, looking at 1.0 Schemifier source, see line 189:
>
> http://scala-tools.org/scaladocs/liftweb/1.0/net/liftweb/mapper/Schemifier.scala.htm
> You can see that it used:  table.dbTableName
>
> If you look at the latest source, see line 193:
>
> http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/blob/master/framework/lift-persistence/lift-mapper/src/main/scala/net/liftweb/mapper/Schemifier.scala#L193
> You can see that it uses:  table._dbTableNameLC
>
> This change broke ensureColumns for Oracle.
>
> As a side note -- there was no useful error message explaining that no
> column metadata was found for table X.  This took a while to trace.
>
> I must admit that I am surprised by Oracle's behavior.  Since the
> database isn't case sensitive, the table name parameter should not be
> case sensitive -- but it certainly is by my testing (and I am using
> 11g).
>
> Why was the code changed to specify a lower case value?
>
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