Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

On 27/08/15 06:59, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 26/08/2015 19:54, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>> ???
> A school of fish and a murder of crows... wonderfully evocative
> collective nouns.
>
> Ray.
>
>
Hmm...

Reminds me about a story I was told where a programmer had used names of
his favourite footballers as labels in an assembler program! :-)

-Gavin