I agree, 100%. We live in a mixed environment of UNIX and Windows and as such, we've assumed case insensitivity in our apps. I know that this is bad practice, but forcing this flag on us is and even worse practice. This should always, always be an option.
I wont be able to upgrade until this is fixed. :( -- R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lenz Grimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: MySQL 4.0.17 has been released > On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:58 PM CET, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > Functionality added or changed: > > > > * `lower_case_table_names' is now forced to 1 if the database > > directory is located on a case-insensitive file system. (Bug > > #1812) > > Uh, _very_ bad. I know that my Windows filesystem is case-insensitive and > that I cannot create tables only differing by case of the name, but I need > to have this setting off to be able to dump my tables on Windows with the > correct (and not lower-cased!!) table names to import them on my webhoster's > Linux server. If the setting was enabled, I'd get all wrong table names and > my application couldn't find its tables anymore (as 'bb1_GroupMembers' gets > to 'bb1_groupmembers' and that's something else!). > > So please change this back again, I believe it's up to the server > administrator to set this in a correct and reasonable way, don't you? > > -- > Yves Goergen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please don't CC me (causes double mails) > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
