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postgres: AttributeError: can't set attribute. #76

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@nialloceallaigh

Error appears to be due to the "_" prepended to the column name if the column name is either "name" or "con". In this specific case dim_cell.name gets prepended to form "_name".

--------------+
|      Table       | Name |   Type  | Foreign Keys | Reference Keys |
+------------------+------+---------+--------------+----------------+
| dim_cell | name | varchar |              |                |
+------------------+------+---------+--------------+----------------+
----> db = DB(username="user", password="pw", hostname="hostname",port="5432",dbname="dbname", dbtype="postgres")
C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\db\db.py in __init__(self, username, password, hostname, port, filename, dbname, dbtype, schemas, profile, exclude_system_tables, limit, keys_per_column)
    833 
    834         self.tables = TableSet([])
--> 835         self.refresh_schema(exclude_system_tables)
    836         self.handlebars = pybars.Compiler()
    837 
C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\db\db.py in refresh_schema(self, exclude_system_tables)
 1339             tables[table_name].append(Column(self.con, self._query_templates, table_name, column_name, data_type, self.keys_per_column))
   1340 
-> 1341         self.tables = TableSet([Table(self.con, self._query_templates, t, tables[t], keys_per_column=self.keys_per_column) for t in sorted(tables.keys())])
   1342         sys.stderr.write("done!\n")
   1343 
C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\db\db.py in __init__(self, con, query_templates, name, cols, keys_per_column)
    272             if attr in ("name", "con"):
    273                 attr = "_" + col.name
--> 274             setattr(self, attr, col)
    275 
    276         self._cur.execute(self._query_templates['system']['foreign_keys_for_table'].format(table=self.name))
AttributeError: can't set attribute 

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