-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.150 2010/08/05 18:21:17 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.151 2010/08/11 21:48:51 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
<para>
For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input:
<programlisting>
-SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE;
-UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
-INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there');
+SELECT * FROM my_table;
+UPDATE my_table SET a = 5;
+INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (3, 'hi there');
</programlisting>
This is a sequence of three commands, one per line (although this
is not required; more than one command can be on a line, and
</indexterm>
Key words and unquoted identifiers are case insensitive. Therefore:
<programlisting>
-UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
+UPDATE my_table SET a = 5;
</programlisting>
can equivalently be written as:
<programlisting>
-uPDaTE my_TabLE SeT a = 5;
+UPDATE my_table SET a = 5;
</programlisting>
A convention often used is to write key words in upper
case and names in lower case, e.g.: