Re: 4.1. Lexical Structure

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Yaroslav Saburov <y(dot)saburov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 4.1. Lexical Structure
Date: 2026-08-28 11:40:13
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYv5e61HmnpjLvZzvDM6KqsaUek9Dy1+3HvAp_b8vUJsQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Friday, August 28, 2026, Yaroslav Saburov <y(dot)saburov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> What should I look for?
> postgres=# SELECT U&"d\0061t\+000061";
> ERROR: column "data" does not exist
> LINE 1: SELECT U&"d\0061t\+000061";
>

Identifiers are always looked up, string constants (written using the
single quote variant) get displayed as-is. You wrote the equivalent of:
select “data”; and your response is as expected since you have no from
clause to supply the table on which a column “data” could exist.

David J.

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