Re: Column Name = column does not exist

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 16:38:57 -0600,
brian stapel <brians_224(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for your time.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to incorporate three Human Resource systems into one. Each of the three systems had a different author and no standards were followed - consequently the table design leaves a bit to be desired. One of the most critical tables has a field named:Last_Name (case specific). When I execute 'Select Last_Name from employee' the statement fails with the following message: column "last_name" does not exist. If I wrap the field name in quotes "Last_Name" for example, the query works as expected.
>
> Is this typical behavior?

Yes. In postgres, unquoted column and table names are converted to lower case.

In general, the advice is to either never quote names or always quote them.