Re: BUG #4166: Alter table add column from PgAdminIII

Mike Gagnon wrote:
> I used PGAdmin III to add a character varying column(400) length, not null
> default ''. I get the column displayed in psql when I do a simple query
> like SELECT * from MyTable limit 1;
>
> When I try to do Update MyTable set NewColumn='something'; I get the error
> saying that the column doesn't exist.... It thinks it exists when I do my
> select, but it doesn't recognize this new column in my UPDATE...

Perhaps you created the column with a capital letter? If that's the
case, you'll have to quote the column name: ... set
"NewColumn"='something'. If that's what happened, I'd suggest dropping
and recreating the column in all-lowercase.

If this didn't help, please post the output of the "SELECT *" verbatim.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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