From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> |
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To: | Ying Lu <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Could not create a table named "USER" under |
Date: | 2004-08-18 18:35:23 |
Message-ID: | 20040818143523.6928dbb5.wmoran@potentialtech.com |
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Ying Lu <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a table named "USER" under MySQL database. When I am trying to
> move tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I found that I could not create a
> table namely "USER". I guess "USER" is a key string used by PostgreSQL
> system so that we could not create a table named "USER". Is that true?
Yes and no.
"user" is a SQL reserved word, which means _no_ SQL database _should_ let
you create a table by that name.
However, if you acutally enclose the name in quotes, you can safely work
around that restriction, i.e.:
CREATE TABLE "USER" AS ...
Be warned that when you enclose the table name in quotes, it becomes
case-sensitive, thus you will have to enclose it in quotes every time
you use it or the names won't match.
A better solution would be to take this opportunity to make your table
names more SQL compliant.
HTH.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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