Re: PostgreSQL Naming Rules

From: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Naming Rules
Date: 2011-10-28 11:15:04
Message-ID: CAFjNrYs+M8N4QJvDuxLPZmgU8vrMVO1p7uOrhfz8reHeKCP-YQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 28 October 2011 12:49, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> according to this article
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of
> tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an
> underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in which character set.
>
> Am I allowed to name a table field < Änderung_1 >. The Ä is a german letter
> contained within the UTF8 character set.
>
> yours,
>
>
> Rob
>
>
The simplest answer is: just check it.

however this works for me:

create table "Änderung_1" (i integer);
select * from "Änderung_1";

regards
Szymon

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