Re: SQL: Are the "" around table & coloumnames necessary?

Try not use the SQL keywords as ur table or field name.

"Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 12:43, Mikey wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > when I write a select for example,
> > it doesn't work this way:
> >
> > select col1, col2
> > from my_table;
> >
> > instead of that I have to write
> >
> > select "col1", "col2"
> > from "my_table";
> >
> > I dont understand this...is there a way to use
> > the more comfortable form without "" ?
>
> The two queries you show are identical. However, if any of the column
> names contain upper-case characters and were enclosed in double-quotes
> when the table was created, you will get the behaviour you are
> complaining about, because all unquoted identifiers are folded to
> lower-case before the query is executed.
>
> The solution is not to use upper-case characters in identifiers.
> If you already have tables with upper-case names, drop them and recreate
> them (or do pg_dumpall, edit the dump file and reload the database).
>
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