[ale] postgresql

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Nov 6 16:37:21 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:13, David Hamm wrote:
> Just beginning  to work with postgresql and can?t figure this one out.
> I a simple name and address table called companies.  When ?select *
> from companies? all records are listed.  But when I try to use a where
> clause I get an ?Attribute not found? error.  Here is the query
> ?select * from companies where st like ga? which returns ?Attribute st
> nof found?.  I?ve also tried using this query ?select * from companies
> where companies.st like ?ga?? and it returns the same error.  And st
> is one of the fields.  Any suggestions?

Check the name of the field with \d  I suspect that st is incorrect.

If it's there, then :

select * from companies where companies.st like 'ga'; 

should work.
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