Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

Consistency in naming convention.

Good suggestion!

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Marc Munro <marc(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 15:15 +0000, Melvin Davidson wrote:
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> > I've been searching for a "PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices" with not
> > much luck,
> > so I've started my own. At the risk of stirring up a storm of
> controversy,
> > I would appreciate additional suggestions and feedback.
> >
>
> You might add: Create all relation names as plurals.
>
> Or, if your site uses predominantly singular names, make that the
> standard. Consistency within the site is more important than any
> dogmatic belief about whether singular or plural forms is better. If
> you don't put it in the standard, someone will eventually create tables
> with names that don't gel with everything else.
>
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> Marc
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