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Re: casing of SQL statements?

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:26:23 -0400

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:01, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 01:54 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm fine with doing the work. Let's gather a few preferences, and if
>>> they support a change from all-lower-case, then I'll make it happen.
>>>
>>> People?
>>
>> Even though it can be a bit unwieldy to type, I prefer the uppercased
>> keywords.  Don't care so much about the table names, though it would
>> make sense to make them lowercased, since they are identifiers, and
>> not keywords.
>
> I've always preferred the all-caps keywords, but honestly that's because my
> SQL knowledge is weak and the extra formatting hints help me know what's
> what.  I don't suppose that's as much of an issue for folks who do SQL stuff
> on a routine basis.

I first used SQL over 20 years ago and still prefer the upper case
keywords. You're not alone :-P

Fixed in r1000691.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2010-09-24 05:27:16 CEST

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