On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> The SQL query below reports an error if the value "uid" is
> provided in uppercase ("UID"). The error reported is:
>
> ERROR: CREATE TABLE: column "UID" named in key does not exist
>
> The problem is eliminated if "UID" is made "uid".
> Here is the full text of the query:
>
> CREATE TABLE PASSWD (
> NAME VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
> PASSWD VARCHAR(32),
> UID INTEGER NOT NULL,
Here you're giving an unquoted name so it gets casefolded
(currently to lowercase).
> GID INTEGER NOT NULL,
> GECOS VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL,
> DIR VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL,
> SHELL VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT "PASSWD_PKEY" PRIMARY KEY ("UID")
Here you're giving a quoted name so no casefolding occurs.
In general you shoul be consistant about either quoting
or not quoting table and column names, mixing them is
dangerous.
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