Re: Possible ODBC driver error

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:12:39 +0000 (UTC) AD in
comp.databases.postgresql.general, Stephan Szabo said:

>
>Here's one possibility...
>Were the names mixed case? If so, the copied tables probably
>were created with their names quoted and you'll need to quote
>the names to reference them. Postgres lowercases unquoted
>names (for case-insensitivity), so if you create a table with
>something like:
>create table "A" ...
>the only way to reference the table is as "A" not A.

Yes this is so

maybe the driver needs an option that gives us a choice (convert table and
field names when making a table), since it's fiddly doing it by hand

>
>
>On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Patrick Dunford wrote:
>
>> I recently copied five tables to the server using the Postgres ODBC driver
>> with MS Access.
>>
>> The tables can be viewed in MS Access but not using PHP or Zeos Database
>> Explorer, which both return the same error message:
>> ERROR: Relation 'adweb_servinf1' does not exist
>>
>> The tables are visible in ZDO and the column names can be viewed. All the
>> names of the tables also appear in pg_tables.
>>
>> Is this a bug in the ODBC driver i.e. it does not make the full entries
>> needed in Postgres for it to know about tables?
>
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