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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cannot drop column
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:34:07 -0800
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On 12/18/24 11:04 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Viral Shah wrote:
> 
>> Since your column name has an Upper case character, you will have to use
>> double quotes to drop it. Try alter table statustypes drop column 
>> "Suspect";
> 
> Viral,
> 
> Huh! I've not before encountered this in the 30+ years I've used postgres.

It has been that way for a long time:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.0/syntax525.htm

Your issue though is as Ron pointed out:

alter table statustypes drop column Suspect

That is trying to drop a column named "Suspect" when in fact the column 
name is stat_name. 'Suspect' is a value in the column.

> 
> Thanks for the lesson.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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