| From: | "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Robert Buckley" <robertdbuckley(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Naming Rules |
| Date: | 2011-10-28 14:08:04 |
| Message-ID: | D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C2070C3F5E@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Robert Buckley wrote:
> according to this article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of
> tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an underscore or letter. Nothing
> is however said about in which character set.
>
> Am I allowed to name a table field < Änderung_1 >. The Ä is a german letter contained within the UTF8
> character set.
You can, but it's a really bad idea to have non-ASCII names.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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