On 18/05/17 11:59, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/17/2017 4:51 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC
- long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone
'Visual Basic'!
I note even INT fields have $ names there... IBM used to
On 5/17/2017 4:51 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC
- long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone 'Visual
Basic'!
I note even INT fields have $ names there... IBM used to like to use $
in names for system stuff,
On 18/05/17 11:32, Neil Anderson wrote:
"Armand Pirvu (home)" writes:
Ran into the following statement
CREATE TABLE test(
Date$ date,
Month_Number$ int,
Month$ varchar(10),
Year$ int
);
A strange naming convention. It has a whiff of Visual Basic
>> "Armand Pirvu (home)" writes:
>>> Ran into the following statement
>>
>>> CREATE TABLE test(
>>> Date$ date,
>>> Month_Number$ int,
>>> Month$ varchar(10),
>>> Year$ int
>>> );
A strange naming convention. It has a whiff of Visual Basic Type
Thanks Tom
Armand
On May 17, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Armand Pirvu (home)" writes:
>> Ran into the following statement
>
>> CREATE TABLE test(
>> Date$ date,
>> Month_Number$ int,
>> Month$ varchar(10),
>> Year$
"Armand Pirvu (home)" writes:
> Ran into the following statement
> CREATE TABLE test(
> Date$ date,
> Month_Number$ int,
> Month$ varchar(10),
> Year$ int
> );
> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
Postgres thinks
Thank you Steve
— Armand
On May 17, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
>
>> On May 17, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Armand Pirvu (home)
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Ran into the following statement
>>
>> CREATE TABLE test(
>> Date$ date,
>>
> On May 17, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Armand Pirvu (home)
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Ran into the following statement
>
> CREATE TABLE test(
> Date$ date,
> Month_Number$ int,
> Month$ varchar(10),
> Year$ int
> );
>
>
> While it does execute, I wonder if
Hi
Ran into the following statement
CREATE TABLE test(
Date$ date,
Month_Number$ int,
Month$ varchar(10),
Year$ int
);
While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
Can anyone shed some light please ?
Thanks
Armand
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