Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior
Thanks everyone for very quick reply. The reason I found odd was I had created another able with the same field name and don't recall having problems at the time with 7.0.3. Or did I get the same problem but I just forgot? I dumped and reloaded 7.0.3 table to 7.1 without problem though. On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:26:53PM -0600, Creager, Robert S wrote: desc is a keyword - ORDER BY DESC-ending Robert Creager StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 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= ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior
desc is a reserved word (descending, ascending, having, from, etc...), as in: select * from foo order by col_a desc; That is why you need the double quotes. jeff Jeff Daugherty Database Systems Engineer Great Bridge LLC [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= ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
RE: [GENERAL] very odd behavior
desc is a keyword - ORDER BY DESC-ending Robert Creager StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 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= ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
Re: [GENERAL] very odd behavior
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 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
