Re: stupid insert error

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:12:03PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
>
> I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
> the following fails.
>
> insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
> slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL);
> ERROR: column "123455" does not exist
>
> is the double quote byting me?

String constants use single quotes (or dollar quotes as of 8.0);
double-quoted strings are interpreted as identifiers. See "Lexical
Structure" in the "SQL Syntax" chapter of the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-LEXICAL

If I'm not mistaken, this distinction is defined in the SQL standard.

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Michael Fuhr
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