Re: Prepping to break every past release...

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Prepping to break every past release...
Date: 2009-03-04 21:03:36
Message-ID: 1236200616.18420.53.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:50 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> > It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> > information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> > compliant (right?).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
>
> What would be the benefit? Apart from satisfying a passion for consistency?

It would lower the cost (intellectually as well as dollars) of
development and administration for every single user of the database.

I can't count how many times I accidentally type tablename versus
table_name or worse relname, etc...

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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