David Bear <David.Bear@xxxxxxx> writes: > I guess I'm too stupid to see the error, but I don't understand why > the following fails. > insert into person3 (asuid, fname, lname, addedby, addedon, > slopbucket) values ("123455", "name", "name", "entered", "12/12/2004", NULL); > ERROR: column "123455" does not exist You want single quotes not double quotes. Double quotes are for identifiers, single quotes are for literals. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS and the following section. regards, tom lane