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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reserved word: OWNER
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 09:33:21 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA-aLv4EJmU2OCPugoknebZDUMXr=cX+tDkKt6Lp47h-kw_1TA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thom Brown <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 13:23, PG Doc comments form
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-keywords-appendix.html
>> 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.

Yeah.  It is a keyword, but not a reserved one, meaning it's okay to use
as an identifier.  See the explanatory text at the top of that page.

There are actually four levels of keyword reserved-ness in Postgres,
and a simple highlighted-or-not scheme is not going to capture any of
that nuance.

			regards, tom lane

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