Re: ERROR: column 'xxx' does not exist (under v. 7.4.1)

Iker Arizmendi wrote:

>
> Using psql and running as the owner of the table "app" I
> try to access the columns of the table like so:
>
> SELECT * FROM app;
>
> which returns all the columns in the table including
> the one I'm interested in, which is "companyID".
> If instead I use something like:
>
> SELECT companyID FROM app;
>
> I get the following:
>
> ERROR: column "companyid" does not exist
>
> even though the column DOES exist (the previous query
> returned "companyID" as one of the column headers). Any
> suggestions as to what I might be missing? I'm running
> Postgres 7.4.1.
>
> Regards,
> Iker

You need to quote the table name if it contains upper case or strange
characters:

SELECT "companyID" FROM app;

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