Re: Problem with my query whithout double-quotes

Keith Gray <keith@heart.com.au>

From: Keith Gray <keith@heart.com.au>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: ROUWEZ Stephane <stephane.rouwez@ecolo.be>, "'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-29T03:34:46Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
Stephan Szabo wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>My pgsql runs on WinNT Server 4. When I try to
>>SELECT nom, prenom FROM individu WHERE numero=2
>>I have : ERROR: Relation "individu" does not exist
>>It only works if I write :
>>SELECT "Individu"."Nom","Individu"."Prenom" FROM "Individu" WHERE
>>"Individu"."NumIndiv"=2
>>Can someone help me ?
>>
> 
> It looks like you created the table with double quotes around the
> names at which point you should always use double quotes to refer
> to it (yes, if the name was "foo" you *can* refer to it as foo, but
> you really shouldn't).


Your table names are case sensitive.
PostgreSQL will make them all lowercase by default,
unless you quote them.

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Keith Gray

Technical Services Manager
Heart Consulting Services P/L
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