On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:08:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have 7.1
>
> Can someone take a look the following
> and tell me why I'm getting errors?
> I'm completely baffled!
> ----------------------------
>
> what=> create table bla(desc text,def text,data text);
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "desc"
> what=> create table bla("desc" text,def text,data text);
> CREATE
> what=>
desc is used to mean descending, as in "order by foo desc". If you enclose
that keyword in quotes, then the parser knows you are using it as a field
name and doesn't wonder about what should be descending..
Cheers,
Patrick
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