Excerpts from Leslie Satenstein's message of dom dic 19 23:39:38 -0300 2010:

> The insert examples in section 2.4 do not function if a cut and paste from
> pdf to psql is done 
> 
> This is the problem
> INSERT INTO weather VALUES (’San Francisco’, 46, 50, 0.25,
> ’1994-11-27’);
> The fields city and date should have ' as delimiter, not 
> ’
> Corrected is the following that works.  Error messages are not clear. It
> would be great if psql indicated invalid character as error type.

The problem is that ’ seems to be a valid character for identifiers:

alvherre=# create table ’oh’ (’ah’ int);
CREATE TABLE
alvherre=# \d ’oh’
       Tabla «alvherre.’oh’»
 Columna │  Tipo   │ Modificadores 
─────────┼─────────┼───────────────
 ’ah’    │ integer │ 


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