| From: | "George Weaver" <gweaver(at)shaw(dot)ca> |
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| To: | "Gavin Flower" <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices |
| Date: | 2015-08-26 19:05:46 |
| Message-ID: | E937572E64B144EEA83AB1DBA44E3429@D420 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin Flower
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
>
>???
Dish - Dishes
Fish - School
Bow - Bows
Crow - Murder
Goose - Geese
Moose - Moose
House - Houses
Mouse - Mice
and so on...
Cheers,
George
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