[php] Cannot simply use PostgreSQL table name ("relation does not exist")

I'm trying to run the following PHP script to do a simple database query:

$db_host = "localhost";
$db_name = "showfinder";
$username = "user";
$password = "password";
$dbconn = pg_connect("host=$db_host dbname=$db_name user=$username password=$password")
    or die('Could not connect: ' . pg_last_error());

$query = 'SELECT * FROM sf_bands LIMIT 10';
$result = pg_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . pg_last_error());

This produces the following error:

Query failed: ERROR: relation "sf_bands" does not exist

In all the examples I can find where someone gets an error stating the relation does not exist, it's because they use uppercase letters in their table name. My table name does not have uppercase letters. Is there a way to query my table without including the database name, i.e. showfinder.sf_bands?

You must write schema name and table name in qutotation mark. As below:

select * from "schemaName"."tableName";

I had problems with this and this is the story (sad but true) :

1. If your table name is all lower case like : accounts you can use: select * from AcCounTs and it will work fine

2. If your table name is all lower case like : accounts The following will fail: select * from "AcCounTs"

3. If your table name is mixed case like : Accounts The following will fail: select * from accounts

4. If your table name is mixed case like : Accounts The following will work OK: select * from "Accounts"

I dont like remembering useless stuff like this but you have to ;)

I had the same issue as above and I am using PostgreSQL 10.5. I tried everything as above but nothing seems to be working.

Then I closed the pgadmin and opened a session for the PSQL terminal. Logged into the PSQL and connected to the database and schema respectively :

\c <DATABASE_NAME>;
set search_path to <SCHEMA_NAME>;

Then, restarted the pgadmin console and then I was able to work without issue in the query-tool of the pagadmin.

I had a similar problem on OSX but tried to play around with double and single quotes. For your case, you could try something like this

$query = 'SELECT * FROM "sf_bands"'; // NOTE: double quotes on "sf_Bands"

Postgres process query different from other RDMS. Put schema name in double quote before your table name like this, "SCHEMA_NAME"."SF_Bands"

Easiest workaround is Just change the table name and all column names to lowercase and your issue will be resolved.

For example:

• Change Table_Name to table_name and
• Change ColumnName to columnname

Put the dbname parameter in your connection string. It works for me while everything else failed.

Also when doing the select, specify the your_schema.your_table like this:

select * from my_schema.your_table

You have to add the schema first e.g.

SELECT * FROM place.user_place;

If you don't want to add that in all queries then try this:

SET search_path TO place;

Now it will works:

SELECT * FROM user_place;

If a table name contains underscores or upper case, you need to surround it in double-quotes.

SELECT * from "Table_Name";

For me the problem was, that I had used a query to that particular table while Django was initialized. Of course it will then throw an error, because those tables did not exist. In my case, it was a get_or_create method within a admin.py file, that was executed whenever the software ran any kind of operation (in this case the migration). Hope that helps someone.

This is realy helpfull

SET search_path TO schema,public;

I digged this issues more, and found out about how to set this "search_path" by defoult for a new user in current database.

Open DataBase Properties then open Sheet "Variables" and simply add this variable for your user with actual value.

So now your user will get this schema_name by defoult and you could use tableName without schemaName.