You can enclose the names in quotes, then the characters are allowed Sorry to mislead you :p
Best, Oliveiros ----- Original Message ----- From: Oliveiros Cristina To: maria s ; Osvaldo Rosario Kussama ; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org ; Pavel Stehule ; Ivan Sergio Borgonovo Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [SQL] column names with - and ( Maria, The minus, open bracket and close bracket are illegal as identifier names http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS Best, Oliveiros ----- Original Message ----- From: maria s To: Osvaldo Rosario Kussama ; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org ; Pavel Stehule ; Ivan Sergio Borgonovo Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: [SQL] column names with - and ( Hi All, When I am fetching the data from a table, I am giving the column names with - and ( and ) like IL-a, IL-a(p30) etc.. select x1 as IL-a, x2 as IL-a(p30) from abc But I am getting ERROR: syntax error at or near "-" and also t "(" , ")" Can anyone help me to fix this? Thank you, Maria
