Re: Prepping to break every past release... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:50 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> > It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> > information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> > compliant (right?).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >   
> 
> 
> What would be the benefit? Apart from satisfying a passion for consistency?

It would lower the cost (intellectually as well as dollars) of
development and administration for every single user of the database.

I can't count how many times I accidentally type tablename versus
table_name or worse relname, etc... 

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake





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