From: | "Mitch Vincent" <mitch(at)venux(dot)net> |
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To: | <newsreader(at)mediaone(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: very odd behavior |
Date: | 2001-05-10 18:21:13 |
Message-ID: | 007e01c0d97d$ff377da0$1251000a@windows |
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desc is a reserved keyword (used in ORDER BY to indicate descending order)..
You can use keywords as field names though you have to put the in quotes (as
you found out!).
-Mitch
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Subject: very odd behavior
> I have 7.1
>
> Can someone take a look the following
> and tell me why I'm getting errors?
> I'm completely baffled!
> ----------------------------
>
> what=> create table bla(desc text,def text,data text);
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "desc"
> what=> create table bla("desc" text,def text,data text);
> CREATE
> what=>
>
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