Subject: Re: confused newbie (to pg not db's)
From: mike <mike@redtux1.uklinux.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:40:18 +0000

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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