Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2024-01-29 15:01:06 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> And it still baffles me why we allow everyone to pick their own system for >> capitalizing identifiers out of a hat, without even insisting on consistency >> from one end of the same identifier to the other.
> Yes. Please. I hate some capitalization/underscore styles, but I hate spending > time feeling out which capitalization style I should use so much more. Let's > at least define some minimal naming guidelines for new code. I'm for this for entirely-new code, but I think when adding code in existing modules we're better off with the rule of "make it match nearby code". I admit it might be hard to draw a clear line between the two cases, plus there might be local inconsistency already. But let's try to avoid making local style inconsistencies worse. regards, tom lane