Re: alias with spaces

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Mourad Dhambri <mourad_dhambri(at)yahoo(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: alias with spaces
Date: 2002-09-10 09:42:19
Message-ID: 20020910194219.C17121@svana.org
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:37:09AM +0200, Mourad Dhambri wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an sql query on postgres then includes alias.
> In SQL Server, when there are spaces in the alias, I
> used to put it between brackets [], but in Postgres it
> doesn't work. why ?

Postgres follows the SQL standard. Use double quotes ("). Note that this
will make all your identifiers case-sensetive.

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.

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