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From: Viral Shah <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cannot drop column
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:51:41 -0500
Message-ID: <CAEVFvu10BvsLoE5JWQrOVU4zLuyTnU1dtfhO7fuon47wTScYxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

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";

Thanks,
Viral



On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm not seeing why postgres won't drop a table's column:
>
> bustrac=# select * from statustypes order by stat_name;
>       stat_name
> --------------------
>   Client
>   Lead
>   No further contact
>   Opportunity
>   Proposal submitted
>   Prospect
>   Qualified
>   Referral
>   Suspect
> (9 rows)
>
> bustrac=# alter table statustypes drop column Suspect;
> ERROR:  column "suspect" of relation "statustypes" does not exist
> bustrac=#
>
> What have I done incorrectly?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
>
>

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