phppgadmin phppgadmin sql error

[ludo1960]

Hi guys,

Thought I would give postgres a go, installed it on debian 9 then installed phppgadmin. When I try to run SQL in phppgadmin:

CREATE TABLE `posts` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `author_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL ,
  `title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `content` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `rate` int(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `release_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `updated_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

I get the following error:

Deprecated: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in /usr/share/php/adodb/adodb-error.inc.phpon line 114

Even the SQL does not run, as I get the error:

SQL error:

ERROR:  syntax error at or near "`"
LINE 1: CREATE TABLE `posts` (
                     ^

Am i missing some sort of configuration in postgres or phppgadmin. I should add that I have installed drupal and laravel using the postgres database with no issues whatsoever, so postgres is working. I have got php7-2 installed, so I don't understand why phppgadmin is looking in /usr/share/php.

Any ideas guys?

[Barand]

In MySQL you use backticks "`" around identifiers when the identifier name is a reserved keyword or contains a space or other special characters. In your code they would not be necessary.

In Postgres a different character from the backtick is used in those circumstances. The manual will tell you which.

While most RDMS systems have a standard core SQL there are variations between the various dialects. You have to be aware of them.

[ludo1960]

Point taken, this will help in the meantime https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader/releases/tag/v3.4.1 until I suss out postgres. But why is phppgadmin using adodb and not php7.2-pgsql, Can't find anything the config.inc.php that mentions the driver to use?

[ludo1960]

For anyone wanting a quick intro into Postgres, this site is easy reading http://www.postgresqltutorial.com