On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Gregory Wood wrote:

> > I don't know if you can name a column "date" because I think it's a
> > reserved word.
> 
> Oddly enough, it *does* work (at least on my version of 7.1), although I
> would recommend against doing it if for no other reason than it's confusing.

If you wrap them in double-quotes, you can use most reserved words as
system identifiers. But I wouldn't -- some cheesy client implementation
might choke on them, and better to not find that out later.

-- 
Joel Burton   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington


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