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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: David Gauthier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: \dt shows table but \d <table> says the table doesn't exist ?
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 23:13:14 +0200
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On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 5/3/24 14:06, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:58 PM David Gauthier <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     psql (15.3, server 14.5) on linux
> >
> >     Someone else's DB which I've been asked to look at.
> >
> >     \dt gives many tables, here are just 3...
> >
> >       public | some_idIds                                       | table
> >     | cron_user
> >       public | WarningIds                                       | table
> >     | cron_user
> >       public | cpf_inv_driverIds                                | table
> >     | cron_user
> >
> >     but \d public.some_idIds gives..
> >
> >     Did not find any relation named "public.some_idIds".
> >
> >
> >
> > Looks like you might need a \d "some_idIds" (include the quotes) since
> > it has an uppercase characters?
>
> This:
>
> "Did not find any relation named "public.some_idIds"."
>
> to me indicates it did look for the properly cased name.
>

That is arguably a really bad error message, because it puts those quotes
there whether needed or not. if you put the quotes in there, you get:

Did not find any relation named "public."some_idIds"".

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