From: Sill-II, Stephen <Stephen.Sill-II@ost.dot.gov>
To: 'Ross J. Reedstrom ' <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Cc: ''pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' ' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: referencing column names properly
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:18:05 -0500
Message-ID: <4BAE87828F06EB45B2641B83D370350F45E5@ostex002.ad.ost.dot.gov> (raw)
Thanks much! After much experimentation, I figured it out. I remember
reading in the postgres oreily book that if you don't quote the identifiers,
that it converts them all to lowercase for processing. Does the dash in the
name also require the name to be quoted?
Thanks again!
Stephen Sill II
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross J. Reedstrom
To: Sill-II, Stephen
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'
Sent: 2/9/2003 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] referencing column names properly
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:34:31PM -0500, Sill-II, Stephen wrote:
> I have a table called logs with several columns whose names have '-'
in
> them, e.g. User-Name
>
> I'm having trouble referencing these columns with SELECT statements.
>
> What would the proper way to address these in a statement like this?
>
> SELECT User-Name, max(Date), max(Time) from logs;
SELECT "User-Name", max("Date"), max("Time") from logs;
Assuming the MulTiCasIng you show is also in the table. SQL lets you
put anything at all in an identifier (table or column name) as long
as you quote it with double-quotes (")
Ross
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