2011/4/8 Louise-Amélie Schmitt <louise-amelie.schm...@embl.de>:
> Hello everyone
>
> I just met a huge problem concerning the database. I'm currently trying
> to transfer my data from MySQL to PostgreSQL by writing a Perl script
> that would do the job.
>
> Here is the issue: In the "form_definition" table, one of the field
> identifiers is "desc", which is a reserved SQL keyword used for ordering
> values. Therefore, There's currently no way of making any query of the
> type "INSERT INTO table_name (<identifiers list>) VALUES (<values
> list>);" which is a big handicap in this context, since the order of the
> identifiers list we dynamically retrieve is not necessarily (and seldom)
> the right order.
>
> Is there a way to fix this issue without blowing everything up?
You need to quote the identifiers. A simple example using "desc" as a
column name:
sdavis=# create table test_table(
id int,
desc varchar);
ERROR: syntax error at or near "desc"
LINE 3: desc varchar);
^
sdavis=# create table test_table(
id int,
"desc" varchar);
CREATE TABLE
Hope that helps.
Sean
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