[postgis-users] "Field xx renamed to XX_01"

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:42:01PM +0100, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:

> I have from time to time in the server's error_log a couple of lines  
> saying that "Field xx renamed to XX_01"... I couldn't find out why,  
...
> The dbf shows the original columns as well as the XX_01 columns....
> 
> Why is that? I re-index the table, re-gist it etc... but still the same.

DBF seem to require uppercase fieldnames, or at least this is what
you usually find inside them so better to conform. 
If I recall correctly you can use the -k switch to attempt using
whatever case is in the database.

--strk;