From 47eeb5e662735a9c4a70b7ad7bd33944ece26a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:03:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional.
---
doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index d2d14dbe9fc..4ae3df325c9 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 1.151 2010/08/11 21:48:51 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.152 2010/08/12 02:03:58 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.:
--
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