Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices
Date: 2015-08-26 18:54:06
Message-ID: 55DE0B4E.1050000@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 27/08/15 00:03, Vincent de Phily wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2015 10:27:04 Gavin Flower wrote:
>> Actually I would suggest standardising on singular names, not JUST
>> because that this the standard I prefer! :-)
>>
>> But (also) because:
>>
>> 1. Singular words tend to be shorter
>>
>> 2. plurals are more ambiguous wrt spelling
>>
>> 3. there other good reasons, that I've forgotten for now :-(
>> (but I remember having them!!!)
> Oh, so you name your tables 'fish' and 'crow' instead of 'school' and
> 'murder' ? Such wasted opportunities :p
>
???

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