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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:04:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot drop column
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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.

Thanks for the lesson.

Regards,

Rich