"Gary Broadbent" <Gary.Broadbent@gtnet.com> writes:
> I then tried to do a select:
> SELECT * FROM CITIES;
> and this did not work. However when I tried
> SELECT * FROM "GTX"."CITIES";
> my select statement DID work.
> Why are do my select statements work with quotes surrounding the schema and
> table although the help does not say that quotes are required?
Apparently you created the table with all-upper-case not all-lower-case
name. See
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS
particularly the last paragraph of that section.
regards, tom lane
