mysqldump problem with case sensitivity? Win->linux

Question

When i dump a table with uppercase letters using mysqldump it comes out as lower case in my > dump.sql file. I found a report here in 2006, almost 4 years old http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19967

A solution here suggest making linux insensitive. I rather not if possible. Whats the easiest way to copy a win32 db into linux?

Answer 1

According to the MySQL manuals, you only have a limited number of options:

  Use lower_case_table_names=1 on all systems. The main disadvantage

with this is that when you use SHOW TABLES or SHOW DATABASES, you do not see the names in their original lettercase.

  Use lower_case_table_names=0 on Unix and lower_case_table_names=2 on

Windows. This preserves the lettercase of database and table names. The disadvantage of this is that you must ensure that your statements always refer to your database and table names with the correct lettercase on Windows. If you transfer your statements to Unix, where lettercase is significant, they do not work if the lettercase is incorrect.

  Exception: If you are using InnoDB tables and you are trying to

avoid these data transfer problems, you should set lower_case_table_names to 1 on all platforms to force names to be converted to lowercase.

See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html for full details.