desc is a reserved keyword (used in ORDER BY to indicate descending order)..
You can use keywords as field names though you have to put the in quotes (as
you found out!).
-Mitch
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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:08 PM
Subject: very odd behavior
> 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=>
>
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