Re: chosing a database name

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management
> application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical
> data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We
> are putting out our first release sometime in the next two
> weeks.
>
> The idea is to name the production database "gnumed0.1" for
> version 0.1 (gnumed0.2 etc for upcoming releases). I do
> realize the "." may force me to quote the database name in,
> say, a CREATE DATABASE call.

I doubt you'll have any problems with the tools, but the quoting may
prove painful. Why not replace the dot with an underscore? gnumed0_1

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