Re: BUG #3429: table named MULTIPOLYGON - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: BUG #3429: table named MULTIPOLYGON
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Msg-id 20070706034806.GA10306@www.trapp.net
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In response to Re: BUG #3429: table named MULTIPOLYGON  ("Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>)
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:22:17PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> try:
> DROP TABLE "MULTIPOLYGON";
>
> That should do it.
> (pardon the top post).
>
>
>
> --
> Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-bugs-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-bugs-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of James White
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
> Subject: [BUGS] BUG #3429: table named MULTIPOLYGON
>
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      3429
> Logged by:          James White
> Email address:      jbw20032@earthlink.net
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.3
> Operating system:   debian etch amd64
> Description:        table named MULTIPOLYGON
> Details:
>
> I accidentally created a table name multipolygon with the typo:
>
> ogr2ogr  -f "PostgreSQL" -nln sw_watersheds -nln MULTIPOLYGON

Sorry, I do't know what the above command does, but it seems to create
the table with an uppercase name. Then...

>
> Using the \dt command I get a line
>
>  public | MULTIPOLYGON     | table | postgres
>
> However with this command
>
> swgap=# \d multipolygon

... just try here \d "MULTIPOLYGON" (with double quotes). This should
work.

PostgreSQL's representation of "case insensitive" names is actually
lower-case. Thus if you use a name unquoted, it'll be implicitly
converted to lower case.

HTH
- -- tomás
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