| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Neil Anderson <neil(at)postgrescompare(dot)com>, "Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: column names and dollar sign |
| Date: | 2017-05-17 23:51:39 |
| Message-ID: | 721580b7-2d33-633e-0339-067b68d18b35@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 18/05/17 11:32, Neil Anderson wrote:
>>> "Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> Ran into the following statement
>>>> CREATE TABLE test(
>>>> Date$ date,
>>>> Month_Number$ int,
>>>> Month$ varchar(10),
>>>> Year$ int
>>>> );
> A strange naming convention. It has a whiff of Visual Basic Type
> Characters about it,
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/visual-basic/programming-guide/language-features/data-types/type-characters.
>
> Any chance there is a connection there?
>
Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC -
long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone 'Visual Basic'!
Cheers,
Gavin
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