Re: column name is "LIMIT"

On 3/14/2005 1:28 PM, Robert Treat wrote:

> Yeah... how come no one told him "don't do that"?  LIMIT is an SQL
> reserved word, so it's likely to cause trouble in any database you try
> to use it on... I'd strongly recommend renaming that column asap. You
> can see other reserved words at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-keywords-appendix.html
>
> Robert Treat

Note also that the Slony-I replication system has problems with column
names identical to reserved words. This is rooted in the fact that the
quote_ident() function doesn't quote reserved words ... as it IMHO is
supposed to do.


Jan

>
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 03:55, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> You will still need to use double quotes in 8.0.1...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Gourish Singbal wrote:
>> > Thanks a lot,
>> >
>> > we might be upgrading to 8.0.1 soon.. till than using double quotes
>> > should be fine.
>> >
>> > regards
>> > gourish
>> >
>> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:25:22 +1100, Russell Smith <mr-russ@pws.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:14 pm, Gourish Singbal wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>Guys,
>> >>>
>> >>>I am having a problem firing queries on one of the tables which is
>> >>>having "limit" as the column name.
>> >>>
>> >>>If a run an insert/select/update command on that table i get the below error.
>> >>>
>> >>>ERROR:  syntax error at or near "limit" at character 71
>> >>
>> >>select "limit" from limit_table WHERE "limit" < 50 LIMIT 2;
>> >>
>> >>You need to quote the field name, and make sure the case is correct.
>> >>
>> >>>Any Help would be realyl great to solve the problem.
>> >>>
>> >>>postgresql 7.4.5 and linux OS
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>You should probably upgrade to 7.4.7
>> >>
>> >>Regards
>> >>
>> >>Russell Smith.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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