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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2010-08-12 02:03:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2010-08-12 02:03:58 +0000 |
| commit | 47eeb5e662735a9c4a70b7ad7bd33944ece26a98 (patch) | |
| tree | eaca0b9e5388f2e0793e6f51c313421b7024d543 | |
| parent | 568e709372abad30075c299be28956b5922219b4 (diff) | |
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Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index d2d14dbe9fc..4ae3df325c9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.151 2010/08/11 21:48:51 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.152 2010/08/12 02:03:58 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="sql-syntax"> <title>SQL Syntax</title> @@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ <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 @@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (3, 'hi there'); </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.: |