Re: Not able to find a table

From: Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
To: Dale Seaburg <kg5lt(at)verizon(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not able to find a table
Date: 2007-07-30 14:41:13
Message-ID: 46ADF889.3000302@janestcapital.com
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Dale Seaburg wrote:

> I have a database that can be accessed and used correctly via ODBC
> and MS-Access. But when I try to do a simple SQL SELECT query in
> psql, I get an error that the table can't be found: Relation
> "instrument_type" does not exist. Yet, when I do a "\d" command, I
> see the table named "Instrument_Type" in the "public" schema. I use
> the database owner as the user id for psql.
>
> I need some help where to look in, say pgAdmin III (my tool of choice
> for database creation / maintenance) for a clue as to why I am
> getting this error.
>
> Thanks for any help, ideas, clues, starting points.
>

Try doing:

select * from "Instrument_Type" limit 10;

in psql. The problem is that for unquoted table names, postgres
automatically lower-cases everything. To access tables with upper case
letters in their names, you need to quote them (using " quotes).

Brian

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