Re: Two novice questions

From: "Anthony E (dot) Greene" <agreene(at)pobox(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two novice questions
Date: 2001-01-15 21:03:38
Message-ID: 20010115160338.K645@cp5340
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:40:56 Jonathan Chum wrote:
>I have two problems. One, I would like to know how to remove a database. It

Use "destroydb databasename" at a shell command line.

>My second question is that I have created a table with a column, FID.
>However, when I SELECT FID FROM table, it will result:

Column names should always be lowercase or quoted:

SELECT "FID" FROM forum; (if the column name is "FID" -- unlikely)
or
SELECT fid FROM forum; (if the column name is "fid")

Tony
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