Re: [SQL] "quoting" column names

At 17:08 +0300 on 13/07/1999, Tom Lane wrote:


> In theory you should only have to worry about keywords that are
> reserved in SQL92 but that Postgres hasn't gotten around to implementing
> yet.  That's a fairly short list, I think, but I do not have the
> details handy.  (Anyone?)

The list of reserved words from the SQL92 spec:

ABSOLUTE, ACTION, ADD, ALL, ALLOCATE, ALTER, AND, ANY, ARE, AS, ASC,
ASSERTION, AT, AUTHORIZATION, AVG

BEGIN, BETWEEN, BIT, BIT_LENGTH, BOTH, BY

CASCADE, CASCADED, CASE, CAST, CATALOG, CHAR, CHARACTER, CHAR_LENGTH,
CHARACTER_LENGTH, CHECK, CLOSE, COALESCE, COLLATE, COLLATION, COLUMN,
COMMIT, CONNECT, CONNECTION, CONSTRAINT, CONSTRAINTS, CONTINUE, CONVERT,
CORRESPONDING, COUNT, CREATE, CROSS, CURRENT, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME,
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_USER, CURSOR

DATE, DAY, DEALLOCATE, DEC, DECIMAL, DECLARE, DEFAULT, DEFERRABLE, DEFERRED,
DELETE, DESC, DESCRIBE, DESCRIPTOR, DIAGNOSTICS, DISCONNECT, DISTINCT,
DOMAIN, DOUBLE, DROP

ELSE, END, END-EXEC, ESCAPE, EXCEPT, EXCEPTION, EXEC, EXECUTE, EXISTS,
EXTERNAL, EXTRACT

FALSE, FETCH, FIRST, FLOAT, FOR, FOREIGN, FOUND, FROM, FULL

GET, GLOBAL, GO, GOTO, GRANT, GROUP

HAVING, HOUR

IDENTITY, IMMEDIATE, IN, INDICATOR, INITIALLY, INNER, INPUT, INSENSITIVE,
INSERT, INT, INTEGER, INTERSECT, INTERVAL, INTO, IS, ISOLATION

JOIN

KEY

LANGUAGE, LAST, LEADING, LEFT, LEVEL, LIKE, LOCAL, LOWER

MATCH, MAX, MIN, MINUTE, MODULE, MONTH

NAMES, NATIONAL, NATURAL, NCHAR, NEXT, NO, NOT, NULL, NULLIF, NUMERIC

OCTET_LENGTH, OF, ON, ONLY, OPEN, OPTION, OR, ORDER, OUTER, OUTPUT, OVERLAPS

PAD, PARTIAL, POSITION, PRECISION, PREPARE, PRESERVE, PRIMARY, PRIOR,
PRIVILEGES, PROCEDURE, PUBLIC

READ, REAL, REFERENCES, RELATIVE, RESTRICT, REVOKE, RIGHT, ROLLBACK, ROWS

SCHEMA, SCROLL, SECOND, SECTION, SELECT, SESSION, SESSION_USER, SET, SIZE,
SMALLINT, SOME, SPACE, SQL, SQLCODE, SQLERROR, SQLSTATE, SUBSTRING, SUM,
SYSTEM_USER

TABLE, TEMPORARY, THEN, TIME, TIMESTAMP, TIMEZONE_HOUR, TIMEZONE_MINUTE,
TO, TRAILING, TRANSACTION, TRANSLATE, TRANSLATION, TRIM, TRUE

UNION, UNIQUE, UNKNOWN, UPDATE, UPPER, USAGE, USER, USING

VALUE, VALUES, VARCHAR, VARYING, VIEW

WHEN, WHENEVER, WHERE, WITH, WORK, WRITE

YEAR

ZONE




Herouth

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