| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gregory Wood <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Erwan DUROSELLE <EDuroselle(at)seafrance(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Rép. : [GENERAL] double quotes around table and |
| Date: | 2002-11-21 22:40:29 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211211539240.23898-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Gregory Wood wrote:
> > The standard is that an identifier (table name, field name, ...) must be
> > double quoted if it contains any non (letter, digits, underscore)
> > character or if it is case sensitive
>
> Is that the SQL standard you are referring to? Because I use underscores
> extensively without double-quotes with no problems.
I think he's saying if you use something OTHER than a letter, digit or
underscore you have to quote it, like
create table crazyname&*$#% ...
would fail, but
create table "crazyname&*$#%" ...
would work.
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