[Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

Kevin Atkinson kevin at atkinson.dhs.org
Wed Aug 4 01:58:04 BST 2010


On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Richard Weait wrote:

> Whoa.  Are you considering adding a period "." to the key?  Might that
> mess up postgres?  From
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
>
> "The period (.) is used in numeric constants, and to separate schema,
> table, and column names. "
>
> Perhaps bounce some of these ideas around on dev?

I just asked and it won't create a problem anywhere.

But, "." is never used anywhere.  So for now I am going to use ':' 
instead.




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