Numeric fields are returned as float instead of string. Database model and column names are no longer lowercased, preserving their casing

Author: EetuKaunismaki

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+__NOTE__ A fork of the original postgresql connector by w3.fi This version does not lowercase db column names 
+fixing issue: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-postgresql/issues/38. Also Strings map to 
+TEXT synonym type (with no arbitrary upper bound). - [email protected]
+
 # loopback-connector-postgresql
 
 [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/), is a popular open-source object-relational database.

lib/postgresql.js

@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ const debugData = require('debug')('loopback:connector:postgresql:data');
 const debugSort = require('debug')('loopback:connector:postgresql:order');
 const Promise = require('bluebird');
 
+/**
+ * Postgresql now returns numeric fields as float instead of string.
+ */
+postgresql.types.setTypeParser(1700, function(val) {
+  return val === null ? null : parseFloat(val)
+});
+
 /**
  *
  * Initialize the PostgreSQL connector against the given data source
@@ -379,11 +386,7 @@ PostgreSQL.prototype.fromColumnValue = function(prop, val) {
  * @returns {String} The converted name
  */
 PostgreSQL.prototype.dbName = function(name) {
-  if (!name) {
-    return name;
-  }
-  // PostgreSQL default to lowercase names
-  return name.toLowerCase();
+  return name; //W3 Group Finland Bugfix: Preserve case of database column names
 };
 
 function escapeIdentifier(str) {