Re: SQL: Are the "" around table & coloumnames necessary?

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 12:43, Mikey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I write a select for example,
> it doesn't work this way:
>
> select col1, col2
> from my_table;
>
> instead of that I have to write
>
> select "col1", "col2"
> from "my_table";
>
> I dont understand this...is there a way to use
> the more comfortable form without "" ?

The two queries you show are identical. However, if any of the column
names contain upper-case characters and were enclosed in double-quotes
when the table was created, you will get the behaviour you are
complaining about, because all unquoted identifiers are folded to
lower-case before the query is executed.

The solution is not to use upper-case characters in identifiers.
If you already have tables with upper-case names, drop them and recreate
them (or do pg_dumpall, edit the dump file and reload the database).

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