Re: column names with - and (

You can enclose the names in quotes, then the characters are allowed

Sorry to mislead you :p

Best,
Oliveiros

----- Original Message -----
From: Oliveiros Cristina
To: maria s ; Osvaldo Rosario Kussama ; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org ; Pavel Stehule ; Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] column names with - and (

Maria,

The minus, open bracket and close bracket are illegal as identifier names

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS

Best,
Oliveiros

----- Original Message -----
From: maria s
To: Osvaldo Rosario Kussama ; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org ; Pavel Stehule ; Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: [SQL] column names with - and (

Hi All,
When I am fetching the data from a table,
I am giving the column names with - and ( and ) like IL-a, IL-a(p30) etc..

select x1 as IL-a, x2 as IL-a(p30) from abc

But I am getting

ERROR: syntax error at or near "-" and also t "(" , ")"

Can anyone help me to fix this?

Thank you,
Maria