Re: Not able to find a table

[Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>]

Dale Seaburg wrote:

> I have a database that can be accessed and used correctly via ODBC  
> and MS-Access.  But when I try to do a simple SQL SELECT query in  
> psql, I get an error that the table can't be found: Relation  
> "instrument_type" does not exist.  Yet, when I do a "\d" command, I  
> see the table named "Instrument_Type" in the "public" schema.  I use  
> the database owner as the user id for psql.
>
> I need some help where to look in, say pgAdmin III (my tool of choice  
> for database creation / maintenance) for a clue as to why I am  
> getting this error.
>
> Thanks for any help, ideas, clues, starting points.

Try doing:

select * from "Instrument_Type" limit 10;


in psql.  The problem is that for unquoted table names, postgres 
automatically lower-cases everything.  To access tables with upper case 
letters in their names, you need to quote them (using " quotes).

Brian