Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices - Mailing list pgsql-general

From George Weaver
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices
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Msg-id E937572E64B144EEA83AB1DBA44E3429@D420
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In response to PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices  (Marc Munro <marc.munro@gmail.com>)
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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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