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From: Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:05:41 +0200
Message-ID: <esrpjm$jnv$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ed01c76252$b0bc28b0$1102a8c0@dream>
References: <00ed01c76252$b0bc28b0$1102a8c0@dream>

Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote:
> Hello
> 
> From my asp page i create a table
> 
> TableName = "CON01"
> strSQL = "CREATE TABLE " & TableName & " ( ID text, N_GEN serial     not null);"
> 
> But the problem i have is that when i go and open my database in pgadmin the table name and coloumn name is written in lowercase :( 
> 
> How do i ask it to write them in uppercase (like in my strSQL) ?
> 

You should quote the name. Please read more about it here -
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS

Excerpt: "Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, whereas
unquoted names are always folded to lower case."


-- 
Milen A. Radev




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