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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:12:34 -0700
From: Sebastien Flacher <sflacher@globalmedia.com>
Organization: Global Media Corporation
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CC: Psql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Uppercase problem with several interfaces
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Hello everybody,

for psql and from the perl interface,
the correct syntax seems to be:

select "field" from "table" where "field"='value';

... with the single quotes to be protected with \ when
  the request is sent to the backend from a script 
  (rather than psql);

Peter Mount wrote:
> 
> Unless the field names are in quotes, the parser forces them into
> lowercase, so in your example, you would change it to:
> 
> select 'Name' from 'Services';
> 
> >
> > I've a problem with uppercase letter in table and fields definition.
> >
> > For example let be a table called 'Services' with fields 'Id' 'Name'
> > 'Vaule', now if with PHP or pgaccess ort psql I make this query:
> >
> > SELECT Name FROM Services;
> >
> > I got this:
> >
> > ERROR: attribute 'name' not found.
> >
> > what is wrong with my configuration?
> >
> > ciao,
> >       Fabio.
> >
> >
> > ************
> 
> ************

-- 
Sebastien Flacher
Software Engineer - Network Engineering
sflacher@globalmedia.com

Global Media Corporation
phone: 888.322.2282 - http://www.globalmediacorp.com