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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cannot drop column
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:09:46 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwZSP+g5kp7apeAonRfT+ywMOGj712ONHDJAdjvo-kynVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Rich Shepard 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";
>>>
>>
> Thanks for the lesson.
>>
>
> But,
>
> bustrac=# alter table statustypes drop column "Suspect"; ERROR:  column
> "Suspect" of relation "statustypes" does not exist
> bustrac=#
>
> Double quoting didn't resolve the issue.
>

Red Ron’s email…

David J.


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