On 12/18/24 11:04 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Viral Shah wrote:
>
>> Since your column name has an Upper case character, you will have to use
>> double quotes to drop it. Try alter table statustypes drop column
>> "Suspect";
>
> Viral,
>
> Huh! I've not before encountered this in the 30+ years I've used postgres.
It has been that way for a long time:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.0/syntax525.htm
Your issue though is as Ron pointed out:
alter table statustypes drop column Suspect
That is trying to drop a column named "Suspect" when in fact the column
name is stat_name. 'Suspect' is a value in the column.
>
> Thanks for the lesson.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>
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