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Asked: 2026-05-14T18:09:36+00:00

I am running ActiveState’s ActivePython 2.6.5.12 and PostgreSQL 9.0 Beta 1 under Windows XP.

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I am running ActiveState’s ActivePython 2.6.5.12 and PostgreSQL 9.0 Beta 1 under Windows XP.

If I create a table with an upper case first letter (i.e. Books), psycopg2 returns the “Programming Error: relation “books” does not exist” error message when I run the select statement: execute("SELECT * FROM Books"). The same error is returned if I run: execute("SELECT * FROM books"). However, if I change the table to a lower case first name (i.e. books), then either of the above statements works.

Are tables name supposed to have a lower case first name? Is this a setting or a feature or a bug? Am I missing something obvious?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Read “Identifiers and Key Words” from the manual, especially the part about “quoted identifiers”.

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