I created the related issue on your behalf
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/EXOJCR-725
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Nicolas Filotto
<nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com
<mailto:nicolas.filotto@exoplatform.com>> wrote:
Thomas, could you please a create an issue in the JCR project?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Nicolas Filotto
<nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com
<mailto:nicolas.filotto@exoplatform.com>> wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Heute
<theute(a)redhat.com <mailto:theute@redhat.com>> wrote:
On 05/11/2010 10:38 AM, Nicolas Filotto wrote:
> According to this blog post
>
http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/09/case-sensitive-my...
>
> for MySQL, we can specify a collation at database creation
It shows at *table* creation ;)
What do you mean?
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Heute
> <theute(a)redhat.com <mailto:theute@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> On 05/11/2010 10:25 AM, Nicolas Filotto wrote:
>> Unfortunately, changing from VARCHAR to VARBINARY
>> is just impossible at this stage since several
>> versions of eXo JCR 1.12 have already been released
>> and those version would then be incompatible.
>> Moreover, I'm pretty sure that it will create side
>> effects more painful than case sensitivity issues.
>>
>> The only way to solve this problem is to specify
>> clearly in the doc that the database must be case
>> insensitive.
> Can this be set at DB level ? I thought it was at
> table level ? And since tables are created by JCR
> it's a bit tricky.
>
> We're going without any change, it's not as bad as I
> originally thought it was, I'm still curious about
> the possibilities though.
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Matthew Wringe
>> <mwringe(a)redhat.com <mailto:mwringe@redhat.com>>
wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 19:16 -0400, Matthew
>> Wringe wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:49 +0200, Thomas
>> Heute wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The great MySQL and MSSQL made that choice
>> that tables (by default) are
>> > > made case insensitive.
>> > > Meaning that 'foobar' is the same as
'FooBar'.
>> > > Today if you create a portal or a page
>> 'toto' and then 'tOtO' it will
>> > > work for other databases but for MySQL or
>> MSSQL it will fail.
>> >
>> > Page names that vary only in case work fine
>> for me with MySQL, but I do
>> > experience the problem with portal names.
>> >
>> > > We should prevent to have 2 portal names
>> that are the same (case
>> > > insensitive). We can't do a simple JCR query
>> (AFAIK) to verify if 2
>> > > portal names are the same (case
>> insensitive), unless we try and catch an
>> > > error. But the error would only happen for
>> those 2 and would potentially
>> > > make a migration from 1 DB to another
>> difficult since they would react
>> > > differently.
>> >
>> > The problem is that we have a field name which
>> as part of it contains
>> > the portal name, and MySQL is converting this
>> into lower case. This
>> > doesn't actually store the portal name, and
>> its not used as a key (nor
>> > is it set as unique).
>> >
>> > I created a quick hack in the jcr that would
>> allow for it to get
>> > multiple values back from the sql query and
>> check them to return only
>> > the correct result.
>> >
>> > This appears to work, and it gives the correct
>> error messages about
>> > portals existing or not. BUT, there is some
>> unique index restraint setup
>> > somewhere which is preventing me from saving
>> the data back to the
>> > database :(
>> >
>> > > The other option is to transform all ids to
>> lowercase before storing in
>> > > Database so we are safe with all database. I
>> actually think it would be
>> > > a good practice as those ids appear in the
>> URL which are usually all in
>> > > lowercase.
>> >
>> > The urls are not in lowercase though, if we
>> want to access the 'classic'
>> > or 'CLASSIC' portal, we can't have the url
all
>> in lowercase.
>> >
>> > > Or if anyone think about any other option ?
>> >
>> > Is there not some sort of case sensitive mode
>> in MySQL that we can have
>> > as a requirement for use with GateIn? The user
>> already needs to setup
>> > and configure the db anyways.
>>
>> We can easily change this by making the table
>> use VARBINARY for the
>> field instead of VARCHAR. There is a jira for here
>>
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBEPP-334
>> with a patch attached.
>> Someone working on the JCR will need to make
>> this change.
>>
>> >
>> > > Thomas.
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