Re: [INTERFACES] Tables acting funny with pgaccess

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Gunter <bgunter@alef.gcsu.edu>
To: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>; pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
<pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Tables acting funny with pgaccess


>I have attached the pg_dump output, but you probably won't need it.
>
>When I got your message this morning, I started looking into the problem a
>little further.  I found two things that I should have noticed before:
>
>1) The problem only occurs when I use capital letters in the field names
>(e.g., "FirstName", "LastName").  Field names consisting of all lower case
>letters don't cause a problem.
>
>2) If I enclose the field name in quotes when running the query (e.g.,
>SELECT t0."LastName" FROM "Present" t0;), then everything works just fine.
>
>That _almost_ solves my problems.  It would be nice if I could use the
>visual query designer to run queries on tables with field names containing
>upper case letters.  (But then again, I could just make all my field names
>lower case and all would be well.)
>
>I think Tom Lane is right.  It seems like field names are being quoted when
>the table is created, but not when a query is executed.
>
>Thanks for looking into it.
>
>-Ben
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
>To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
>Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 2:17 AM
>Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Tables acting funny with pgaccess
>
>
>>Ben Gunter wrote:
>>>
>>> > declare mycursor cursor for select t0.lastname from "Present" t0
>>
>>Send me a small pg_dump of that table with a few records.
>>I will try it here.
>>
>>--
>>Constantin Teodorescu
>>FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA
>>
>>
>