From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: atp@fastmail.fm
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Syntax incorrect for psql 9.6
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:54:29 -0400
Message-ID: <24333.1567518869@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156748159745.1118.15515709620109809195@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <156748159745.1118.15515709620109809195@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> For the REINDEX DATABASE command, the documentation suggests REINDEX
> DATABASE databaseName, however my experience suggests this does not work;
> the database name must be quoted:
> sonarDB=# \c sonarDB;
> You are now connected to database "sonarDB" as user "sonarUser".
> sonarDB=# REINDEX DATABASE sonarDB;
> ERROR: can only reindex the currently open database
> sonarDB=# REINDEX DATABASE "sonarDB";
> REINDEX
There's nothing wrong with REINDEX; this is just the generic problem
that non-lower-case identifiers have to be double-quoted anywhere
in SQL. See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS
particularly the last para in 4.1.1.
regards, tom lane
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