Re: lowercase on columnname using view

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 04:00 -0700, Chrishelring wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> had some help the other day, but now I´m kinda stuck again. :/
>
> I have a table ("virksomhedsdata") with the following columns:
>
> "MI_STYLE" character varying(254),
>  "MI_PRINX" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT
> nextval('rk_ois."virksomhedsdata_MI_PRINX_seq"'::regclass),
>  "SP_GEOMETRY" geometry,
>
> I would like to make a view so that the columnnames are presented in
> lowercase. I thought that the following would work:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW rk_ois.virksomhedsdata AS
>  SELECT  virksomhedsdata.MI_STYLE AS mi_style, virksomhedsdata.MI_PRINX as
> mi_prinx, virksomhedsdata.SP_GEOMETRY AS sp_geometry
>    FROM rk_ois.virksomhedsdata;
>
> But it fails saying that column virksomhedsdata.mi_style does not exist.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>

You should double-quote the columns of the table. Something like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW rk_ois.virksomhedsdata AS
  SELECT  virksomhedsdata."MI_STYLE" AS mi_style, ...


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