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Re: BUG #2764: Capital letter in tables or columns not supported



On 11/17/06, Ron Teitelbaum <ron(at)usmedrec(dot)com> wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2764
Logged by:          Ron Teitelbaum
Email address:      ron(at)usmedrec(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 1.4.1
Operating system:   Windows
Description:        Capital letter in tables or columns not supported
Details:

I ran into a very weird problem that tured out to be a capital letter in the
table name or column name.  When trying to query a table with a capital
letter in the name I get error relation not defined.

I can get it to work with something like:
   select * from "zipCodes"

It appears to be completely case insensitive if the table is all lowercase.



that's not a bug... if you create a table or column with capital
letters postgres transform it to lowercase...

if you don't want that you need to double quotes...

create table "Foo" (Col1 int);
select * from "Foo";

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regards,
Jaime Casanova

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning."
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