Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior

2001-05-10 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:08:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 7.1 > > Can someone take a look the following > and tell me why I'm getting errors? > I'm completely baffled! > > > what=> create table bla(desc text,def text,data text); > ERROR: parser: pa

RE: [GENERAL] very odd behavior

2001-05-10 Thread Creager, Robert S
desc is a keyword - ORDER BY DESC-ending Robert Creager StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I have 7.1 > > Can someone take a look the following > and tell me why I'm getting errors? > I'm completely baffle

Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior

2001-05-10 Thread Jeff Daugherty
desc is a reserved word (descending, ascending, having, from, etc...), as in: select * from foo order by col_a desc; That is why you need the double quotes. jeff Jeff Daugherty Database Systems Engineer Great Bridge LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 7.1 > > Can someone take a look the f

Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior

2001-05-10 Thread newsreader
Thanks everyone for very quick reply. The reason I found odd was I had created another able with the same field name and don't recall having problems at the time with 7.0.3. Or did I get the same problem but I just forgot? I dumped and reloaded 7.0.3 table to 7.1 without problem though. On Thu,