Re: confused newbie (to pg not db's)

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> mike <mike(at)redtux1(dot)uklinux(dot)net> writes:
> > CREATE TABLE public."Invoice_Header"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > I am trying to make Inv_ID a primary key as follows
>
> > alter table Invoice_Header ADD CONSTRAINT PK_inv PRIMARY KEY (Inv_ID)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > which runs without error, but nothing changes
>
> I think you have tables named "Invoice_Header" and "invoice_header",
> and the latter table is what's getting affected by your ALTER. If you
> are going to use mixed-case names then you have to be consistent about
> double-quoting them all the time.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

I worked out what was happening - I was missing the ;

Not helped by pgaccess and pgadmin not working right in different ways

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