[Building Sakai] A Sensitive Subject

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Sun Oct 14 09:44:48 PDT 2012


One way of putting is:

"Sakai does not require case sensitive table names but all scripts and 
code should assume that it may be running on a database that is case 
sensitive"

D


On 10/12/2012 04:04 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
> If you're running Mysql on Non-OSX UNIX, then by default the table 
> names are case sensitive.
>
> In the admin guide we recommend altering the Mysql configuration so it 
> isn't case sensitive which is the default value for OSX and Windows 
> (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+Admin+Guide+-+Database+Configuration+and+Tuning) 
>  but it should work either way. All hard coded queries, conversion 
> scripts as well as Mysql QA servers are set to be case sensitive
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Mark J. Norton 
> <markjnorton at earthlink.net <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     Does Sakai require database table names to be case sensitive?  I don't
>     seem to recall anything about this in the database set-up of the
>     install
>     instructions.
>
>     - Mark Norton
>
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