| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
| Cc: | magnus(dot)johan(dot)hedberg(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Reserved word: OWNER |
| Date: | 2022-05-13 13:33:21 |
| Message-ID: | 638431.1652448801@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 13:23, PG Doc comments form
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-keywords-appendix.html
>> if I try to use OWNER as a column name in pgAdmin, it is marked blue (ie
>> a reserved word). So which is it?
> That sounds like a PgAdmin issue, and probably because of the way that
> their syntactic highlighting works. OWNER isn't a reserved word.
Yeah. It is a keyword, but not a reserved one, meaning it's okay to use
as an identifier. See the explanatory text at the top of that page.
There are actually four levels of keyword reserved-ness in Postgres,
and a simple highlighted-or-not scheme is not going to capture any of
that nuance.
regards, tom lane
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