laravel db postgresql columns with quotes

Question

I have a website (Laravel & AngularJS) which used MySQL. Now i'm trying to change to Postgres, the database is created and accessible (with all the columns in lowercase which i can't change because there's another application sharing the database). The problem is Laravel's Illuminate is creating the db queries with quotes around the columns' keys like this:

DB::table('generalsettings')->where('settingsKey', '=', 'LicenseSerial');

this creates: SELECT * FROM "generalsettings" WHERE "settingsKey"='LicenseSerial'

Which doesn't work due to the columns' key lowercase. Is there anyway to configure Illuminate's DB to not append quotes to columns keys?

Answer 1

No, there is no config value or anything to control this at the application level. Your best bet is to just know that your column names are case sensitive, and make sure to write your queries correctly.

There are two other options, but they're not pretty.

First, Laravel will not wrap expressions, so the following would work:

DB::table('generalsettings')->where(DB::raw('settingsKey'), '=', 'LicenseSerial');

This, of course, means you'd have to wrap every column name you specify with a call to DB::raw().

The second option would be extending and overriding files in the query builder to stop escaping the columns. This would be a lot of work and very error prone. I won't go into the details, but you'd end up having to override the PostgresGrammar, Grammar, and PostgresConnection, at a minimum, and then wire them all together in a service provider.