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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-08-12 02:04:07 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-08-12 02:04:07 +0000
commit8cc3c67c245e3df61db053dc16e8dad26f253f4a (patch)
tree5ea25f17cd46055afab76ce41496705277d72c9a /doc/src
parentf483b02041aaa5e1df055706296096ef00dac47f (diff)
Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 88a4f8edb5e..96817c05cf5 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 1.147.2.3 2010/08/11 21:49:01 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.147.2.4 2010/08/12 02:04:07 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.: