[Pdx-pm] (OT) SQL style question

[David Wheeler]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Randall Lucas wrote:

> I recommend against this, even if all your target database platforms 
> support escaped identifier names with periods in them.  For one thing, 
> Class::DBI (and/or at least some of its related modules) doesn't play 
> nice with quoted names.  I got a good ways into an implementation that 
> worked with all of my own software, using odd but escaped names on 
> Postgres, but found myself in a world of hurt when trying to use a 
> number of automation tools for SQL.

Only an issue if you're using Class::DBI.

> If you have the luxury, ban leading, trailing, and double underscores 
> in all db identifiers except for the prefixed names.  That should 
> preserve uniqueness of __ so that you can do a s/__/\./g to change 
> names back.

Yes, that's where I'm leaning now. Then we just have to deal with the 
overhead of that conversion for each column name.

> Having names that m/^\w+$/ will be a lot easier for you in the end, I 
> think.

Fair enough.

Regards,

David
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