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Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examples

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Bruce Momjian
2010-08-11 21:49:01 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.147.2.2 2010/08/05 18:21:29 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.147.2.3 2010/08/11 21:49:01 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
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<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
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</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.: