Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread Erwin Brandstetter
novnov wrote: Is there anything like SOP for pgsql devs then? Do most stick to lowercase everywhere, and skip the issues, or do they keep the namestyles like "ItemName" and just accomodate the need to double quote when it arises? I am sure good devs could go either way, but curious if you or othe

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread novnov
Thanks again. Is there anything like SOP for pgsql devs then? Do most stick to lowercase everywhere, and skip the issues, or do they keep the namestyles like "ItemName" and just accomodate the need to double quote when it arises? I am sure good devs could go either way, but curious if you or othe

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread Dave Page
novnov wrote: Hi Dave and thanks for responding. I have to worry about the SQL syntax because practically the first thing I did after using pgAdmin to create the tables was to try to write a stored proceedure with pgAdmin against the table. The stored proceedure wouldn't work until I manually ad

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread novnov
Hi Dave and thanks for responding. I have to worry about the SQL syntax because practically the first thing I did after using pgAdmin to create the tables was to try to write a stored proceedure with pgAdmin against the table. The stored proceedure wouldn't work until I manually added the double

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread Dave Page
novnov wrote: I am having a discussion re pgsql double quoting or not in the General mailing list, it's buried in the thread titled "Simple stored procedure examples?" As far as I understand things, pgsql ignores case, unless I explicitly use surround table and field names etc with double quotes.

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-05 Thread novnov
I am having a discussion re pgsql double quoting or not in the General mailing list, it's buried in the thread titled "Simple stored procedure examples?" As far as I understand things, pgsql ignores case, unless I explicitly use surround table and field names etc with double quotes. If I use the d

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-04 Thread novnov
I see, so to make it explicit, if I'd named my table item not Item, and the column itemname not ItemName, pgAdmin (and pgsql) wouldn't need to double quote. Not my preference but I'll live. Thanks Dave Page-3 wrote: > > novnov wrote: >> As far as I can tell pgsql itself does not require table

Re: [pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and

2006-11-04 Thread Dave Page
novnov wrote: As far as I can tell pgsql itself does not require table and field names to be wrapped in double quotes, but pgAdmin does that by default (at least on windows). PostgreSQL does require you to use double quotes in some circumstances (for example, if you use upper case letters). p

[pgadmin-support] Does pgAdmin have to double-quote table and field names?

2006-11-04 Thread novnov
As far as I can tell pgsql itself does not require table and field names to be wrapped in double quotes, but pgAdmin does that by default (at least on windows). What's the rationale? I've not found a way to turn this off in pgAdmin, is there a way, is it safe to do this? It's a very nice package,