Re: Unable to add a new column to a table named "in" (look like a bug ...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi Adam,

Yes your right .. here is the output.  The only thing is that in PGadminIII
I just see the "in" table....

Thanks for your help anyway!

Have a good day
David

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^Cpostgres=# \c reference
You are now connected to database "reference".
reference=# \d "IN"
                       Table "public.IN"
 Column  |            Type             |       Modifiers
---------+-----------------------------+------------------------
 innum   | character varying(10)       | not null
 ts      | timestamp without time zone | not null default now()
 indescs | character varying[]         |
 descs   | character varying[]         |

reference=# \d "in"
                         Table "public.in"
   Column   |            Type             |       Modifiers
------------+-----------------------------+------------------------
 innum      | character varying(10)       | not null
 indesc_pri | character varying(100)      |
 indesc_sec | character varying(100)      |
 ts         | timestamp without time zone | not null default now()
 indescs    | character varying[]         |
Indexes:
    "in_pk" PRIMARY KEY, btree (innum)

reference=#

-----Message d'origine-----
De : pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] De la part de Adam Rich
Envoyé : Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:33 AM
À : 'David Gagnon'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Objet : Re: [GENERAL] Unable to add a new column to a table named "in" (look
like a bug ...)

>
>   It worked Thanks!! But there is definitly something wrong with the
> error
> message I got (right?):
>
> reference=# alter table "IN" add column INDESCS VARCHAR[];
> ERROR:  column "indescs" of relation "IN" already exists
>

I don't know, what do you see when you \d "IN" ?

When you use double-quotes, capitalization is significant,
So "in" and "IN" and "In" are all different tables.  This error
message means you already have an upper-case "IN" table and it
already has a column INDESCS.



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