GBase 8s: How DELIMIDENT Controls Case Sensitivity
By default, identifiers in GBase 8s are case‑insensitive: uppercase letters are silently treated as lowercase. Setting the environment variable DELIMIDENT=Y changes how double‑quoted identifiers behave, enabling case‑sensitive table and column names. Here's a demonstration and a deep dive into the option, as used in a gbase database. Testing Case Sensitivity With DELIMIDENT=y exported, execute the following statements: export DELIMIDENT = y dbaccess testdb ! -- Uppercase table name, double-quote
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