Re: Reserved word: OWNER

On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 13:23, PG Doc comments form
<noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-keywords-appendix.html
> Description:
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> You say it's a non-reserved word, but on this page:
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https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterdatabase.html#:~:text=To%20alter%20the%20owner%2C%20you,default%20tablespace%20of%20the%20database.
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> you clearly use OWNER as a reserved word:
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> ALTER DATABASE name OWNER TO { new_owner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER |
> SESSION_USER }
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> and if I try to use OWNER as a column name in pgAdmin, it is marked blue (ie
> a reserved word). So which is it?

That sounds like a PgAdmin issue, and probably because of the way that
their syntactic highlighting works.  OWNER isn't a reserved word.

postgres=# CREATE TABLE owner (owner TEXT);
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# \d owner
              Table "public.owner"
 Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
--------+------+-----------+----------+---------
 owner  | text |           |          |

Regards

Thom