>From: April L <april@i-netco.com>
>To: "Brian Schroeder" <bjswm@hotmail.com>, pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Relation does not exist
>Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 23:01:04 -0400
>
>in your queries you have to refer to it with propercase and enclose in "
>quotes
>
>so books_bookid_seq will cause the error
>
>"Books_BookID_seq" will be ok...
>
>I'm also a novice... I don't know what you are doing but here is an example
>of properly referring to a column called Cars in a table called Customers
>like this
>
>"Customers"."Cars"
>
>if you run a windows machine connecting to your pg machine, nice easy
>interface is PGExplorer or PGAdmin. They show you this kind of thing to
>some extent and PGExplorer helps write the syntax to some extent.
>
>- April
>
>At 11:53 AM 5/8/2002 +0930, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> >Hi everyone.
> >
> >I am new to this list, and a real novice with databases.
> >
> >A while back I created a database using postgres 7.03 in Mandrake 7.2.
> >It is a catalog for all my books.
> >
> >Although not really knowing what I was doing, I have recently upgraded
> >it to 7.2 along with Mandrake 8.2. I did a dump_all from 7.03, and
> >then read it all in to psql in 7.2.
> >
> >When I try to view the database, everything is there and looks OK. But
> >if I try to insert a new entry I get the following error:
> >
> >ERROR: Relation "books_bookid_seq" does not exist.
> >
> >Using phpPgadmin shows:
> >
> >Field Type Length Not Null Default
> >BookId Int4 4 Yes nextval('Books_BookID_seq'::text)
> >
> >What do I need to do?
> >
> >Brian
> >
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