From: Bruce Momjian Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:48:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examples X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA1~99 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4a3ef344e189d714d06224892e636c3153e8103;p=postgresql Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examples --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index ee2c5214aa..d2d14dbe9f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + SQL Syntax @@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input: -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'); 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 @@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there'); Key words and unquoted identifiers are case insensitive. Therefore: -UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5; +UPDATE my_table SET a = 5; can equivalently be written as: -uPDaTE my_TabLE SeT a = 5; +UPDATE my_table SET a = 5; A convention often used is to write key words in upper case and names in lower case, e.g.: