Re: how to drop table named user - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: how to drop table named user
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Msg-id m3y8xm7ell.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com
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In response to how to drop table named user  ("Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher@macys.com>)
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"Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher@macys.com> writes:

> We accidentally created a table called user  in our public schema.  We are
> now trying to remove the table using DROP TABLE user and even DROP TABLE
> public.user.  However every time we try we get an error message: ERROR:
> parser: parse error at or near "user" at character 12
>
> Any suggestion on how to remove this table?  I thought maybe going through
> Pg Class, but I'm terrified of mucking something else up.
> TIA

DROP TABLE "user" should work.  The table name has to be quoted to
distinguish it from the USER SQL keyword.

-Doug

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