[asterisk-dev] CDR variables

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 22 November 2009 08:17:08 Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 22 nov 2009 kl. 15.05 skrev Benny Amorsen:
> > "Olle E. Johansson" <oej at edvina.net> writes:
> >> Can we make a distinction like channel variables, that system added
> >> variables being UPPER CASE in the future? Obviously we all missed this
> >> case when we added the CDR availables.
> >
> > Case distinctions are not so useful if the CDR's are going to be stored
> > in SQL. SQL is stuck with case-insensitive column names (often
> > ASCII-only). Welcome to 1970.
>
> Maybe it was more EBCDIC at that time.
>
> I guess that the proposal at the bottom is better then - to prefix with
> underscore.

That's fine, I guess.  I probably would need to make that underscore optional
in the adaptive drivers, in terms of the column name.  I think I'd rather deal
with an 'ast' prefix, much like how many databases reserve 'sys' for their own
tables and column names.

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