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If InnoDB Then lower_case_table_names Equals 1

26 April 2010

In MySQL system variable lower_case_table_names controls if identifiers are case sensitive. The default setting is 0 if the OS file system is case sensitive, if not 1 - there some exceptions when it comes to Mac OS. However the documentation recommends lower_case_table_names = 1 when using the InnoDB engine.

“Exception: If you are using InnoDB tables, you should set lower_case_table_names to 1 on all platforms to force names to be converted to lower case.”

http://mysql2.mirrors-r-us.net/doc/refman/5.1/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html

UPDATE: As it is on 15/06/2010 this parameter cannot be changed on Amazon RDS instances. It is set to lower_case_table_names=0 it would seem.


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