Question

Hello I blocked in the creation of a simple table please help me
using ubuntu 11.04 – PostgreSQL 8.4.8
with phppgadmin I get this code :

CREATE TABLE users 
(
  id                SERIAL,
  username          CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  PASSWORD           CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  etat              INTEGER(1),
  avatar            CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  description       text,
  email             CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  website           CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  country           CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  location          CHARACTER VARYING(255),
  nb_upload         INTEGER,
  sexe              CHARACTER VARYING(25),
  group_id          INTEGER,
  created           DATE,
  modified          DATE,
  enable_mail       INTEGER(1),
  enable_location   INTEGER(1),
  facebook_id       BIGINT,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
)

but every time I execute , it return this error :

ERROR: syntax error at or near “(”
LINE 1: … “password” character varying(255), “etat” integer(1), “avat…

thanks

Answer 1

integer(1) is not a valid data type in PostgreSQL. The correct name is integer

See the manual for a complete list of all available types:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype.html

Edit:

If you want to store a “flag” that stores true/false use the boolean data type instead.