Re: Not able to find a table - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Brian Hurt
Subject Re: Not able to find a table
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Msg-id 46ADF889.3000302@janestcapital.com
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In response to Not able to find a table  (Dale Seaburg <kg5lt@verizon.net>)
List pgsql-novice
Dale Seaburg wrote:

> I have a database that can be accessed and used correctly via ODBC
> and MS-Access.  But when I try to do a simple SQL SELECT query in
> psql, I get an error that the table can't be found: Relation
> "instrument_type" does not exist.  Yet, when I do a "\d" command, I
> see the table named "Instrument_Type" in the "public" schema.  I use
> the database owner as the user id for psql.
>
> I need some help where to look in, say pgAdmin III (my tool of choice
> for database creation / maintenance) for a clue as to why I am
> getting this error.
>
> Thanks for any help, ideas, clues, starting points.
>

Try doing:

select * from "Instrument_Type" limit 10;


in psql.  The problem is that for unquoted table names, postgres
automatically lower-cases everything.  To access tables with upper case
letters in their names, you need to quote them (using " quotes).

Brian


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