From: mike <mike@redtux1.uklinux.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: confused newbie (to pg not db's)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:40:18 +0000
Message-ID: <1076614818.11650.10.camel@datacc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4485.1076600703@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <1076595324.3818.8.camel@datacc>
<4485.1076600703@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> mike <mike@redtux1.uklinux.net> writes:
> > CREATE TABLE public."Invoice_Header"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > I am trying to make Inv_ID a primary key as follows
>
> > alter table Invoice_Header ADD CONSTRAINT PK_inv PRIMARY KEY (Inv_ID)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > which runs without error, but nothing changes
>
> I think you have tables named "Invoice_Header" and "invoice_header",
> and the latter table is what's getting affected by your ALTER. If you
> are going to use mixed-case names then you have to be consistent about
> double-quoting them all the time.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
I worked out what was happening - I was missing the ;
Not helped by pgaccess and pgadmin not working right in different ways
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