Re: Use uppercase keywords in foreign key tutorial

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use uppercase keywords in foreign key tutorial
Date: 2025-10-29 20:34:24
Message-ID: aQJ6UIrQeC6impXg@momjian.us
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 04:34:45PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I noticed the patch also changes some column types to lowercase:
>
> <programlisting>
> CREATE TYPE tablefunc_crosstab_N AS (
> - row_name TEXT,
> - category_1 TEXT,
> - category_2 TEXT,
> + row_name text,
> + category_1 text,
> + category_2 text,
> .
> .
> .
> - category_N TEXT
> + category_N text
> );
> </programlisting>
>
> FWIW I tend to use uppercase for those, too, but I'm not sure there is a
> preferred style for the docs.

Agreed, uppercase is better for type names.

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