Re: Postgres 12.4 inner join with where statement = 'string' returning error

On 1/3/21 7:33 PM, VAE Ventures wrote:
> I am running a db on postgres12.4
>
> I have been trying to run a query that looks like this:
>
> SELECT * FROM table_1 INNER JOIN table_2 ON table_1.column =
> table_2.column WHERE table_1.column = ‘string’;
>
> I am being returned:
>
> ERROR: column 'string' does not exist
>
> The following queries work fine:
>
> SELECT * FROM table_1 INNER JOIN table_2 ON table_1.column =
> table_2.column WHERE table_1.column = int;
>
> SELECT * FROM table_1 WHERE column = ‘string’;
>
> I read several posts about this error, which seems very common and is
> usually solved by switching up quotation variations around the table name,
> column name, and the name of the string I am querying for. I have tried
> every variation of double and single quotes around each table name, column
> name, and name of string, and nothing worked.
>
> For some reason, it seems that querying for a string is what is throwing
> everything off. I am new to postgres, am I missing something? Appreciate
> any advice possible

Please show us an actual query with it's actual error message.

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