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stupid insert error

From
David Bear
Date:
I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
the following fails.


insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL);
ERROR:  column "123455" does not exist

is the double quote byting me?
--
David Bear
phone:     480-965-8257
fax:     480-965-9189
College of Public Programs/ASU
Wilson Hall 232
Tempe, AZ 85287-0803
 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"

Re: stupid insert error

From
Michael Fuhr
Date:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:12:03PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
>
> I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
> the following fails.
>
> insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
> slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL);
> ERROR:  column "123455" does not exist
>
> is the double quote byting me?

String constants use single quotes (or dollar quotes as of 8.0);
double-quoted strings are interpreted as identifiers.  See "Lexical
Structure" in the "SQL Syntax" chapter of the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-LEXICAL

If I'm not mistaken, this distinction is defined in the SQL standard.

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

Re: stupid insert error

From
"Bruno G. Albuquerque"
Date:
Try single quotes (') instead of double-quotes (").

-Bruno

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:12:03 -0700, David Bear said:

> I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
> the following fails.
>
>
> insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
> slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/
> 2004", NULL);
> ERROR:  column "123455" does not exist
>
> is the double quote byting me?
> --
> David Bear
> phone:     480-965-8257
> fax:     480-965-9189
> College of Public Programs/ASU
> Wilson Hall 232
> Tempe, AZ 85287-0803
>  "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)------------------------
> ---
> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster


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Re: stupid insert error

From
Tom Lane
Date:
David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes:
> I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
> the following fails.

> insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
> slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL);
> ERROR:  column "123455" does not exist

You want single quotes not double quotes.  Double quotes are for
identifiers, single quotes are for literals.  See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS
and the following section.

            regards, tom lane

Re: stupid insert error

From
"李江华"
Date:
David Bear,您好！

    yes.of course.
    you should insert the record like this:
    insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
    slopbucket) values ('123455', 'name', 'name', 'entered', '12/12/2004', '');

======= 2005-06-24 08:12:03 您在来信中写道：=======

>I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why
>the following fails.
>
>
>insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon,
>slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL);
>ERROR:  column "123455" does not exist
>
>is the double quote byting me?
>-- 
>David Bear
>phone:     480-965-8257
>fax:     480-965-9189
>College of Public Programs/ASU
>Wilson Hall 232
>Tempe, AZ 85287-0803
> "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"
>
>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>

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　　　　　　　　　　2005-06-24