Help with snowflake connection string

[juli4nb4dillo]

Folks, I got a snowflake database with a "public" schema (Yes, lowercase enforced "public").

• If I use this connection string: snowflake://user:password@account/MYDB/public It just says I'm unauthorized (schema doesn't exist)
• If I use this connection string snowflake://user:password@account/MYDB/"public" it authorizes all right, but then there's an unexplained syntax error down the line:

dbdoc/schema.svg
syntax error in line 1 near 'public'

I've tried "'public'" '"public"' and "\"public\"" but none work.

I believe it might have to do with snowflake assuming any unescaped identifier is uppercase (therefore the authorization error) but the escaping messes with the SQL for exploring the schema.

Is there a combination of escaping that will work?