Postgres column does not exist

Question

Someone else wrote a SQL Server query which worked, and I have the job of porting it over to Postgres.

I don\'t really know either database beyond the very basic SQ

Answer 1

Edited: The quoted capitalization is tanking the query. In the output of the second failure below you can see Postgres does not like the upper case. It has a habbit of lowercaseing everything unless you force with " quotes.

--fails
select a
from
(select 1 as "A") as t;

--fails
select A
from
(select 1 as "A") as t;

--works
select "A"
from
(select 1 as "A") as t;

psql:new.sql:5: ERROR:  column "a" does not exist
LINE 1: select a
               ^
psql:new.sql:10: ERROR:  column "a" does not exist
LINE 1: select A
               ^
 A 
───
 1
(1 row)


select ...
timeloggedToday.date_logged "DATE_LOGGED_TODAY",
-- should be: timeloggedToday."DATE_LOGGED" "DATE_LOGGED_TODAY",

...

LEFT JOIN
  (SELECT app_user.lower_user_name,
          to_char(startdate, '%Y-%m-%d') AS "DATE_LOGGED",
          Sum(timeworked) / 3600 "TIME_IN_HOURS",
          startdate - Now() "DIFFERENCE_DAYS"
   ...
  ) timeloggedToday ON timeloggedToday.lower_user_name = users.author;

I would think about getting rid of the capitalization and quotes. It just going to cause headaches. As a side note, you could write the left join just once by:

-- instead of enumerating each possible interval  
WHERE to_char(Now() - INTERVAL '8 days', '%Y-%m-%d') < to_char(startdate, '%Y-%m-%d')
-- select the interval
now()::date - start_date as diff
-- then build up your columns like:
case(case when diff=0 then date_logged else null end) as date_logged_today
case(case when diff=1 then date_logged else null end) as date_logged_yesterday
-- and so on ...

Also you could make

CASE
   WHEN Ifnull(timeloggedToday.time_in_hours, 0) = 0 THEN 'No Time Logged'
   WHEN timeloggedToday.time_in_hours < 3.0 THEN 'User has not logged sufficient time' 
   ELSE 'user has logged sufficient time'
 END "STATUS_TODAY",

into a function to get rid of the tedious redundancy.