Re: [stellation-res] Prefixing column and table names?

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 July 2002 04:23 am, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my initial work for the Oracle backend I encountered some column
> names that were Oracle reserverd words. Mark already agreed that
> prefixing column and table names would help preventing such cases again
> with any DB system. I propose that we prefix table and column names
> with the acronym 'svc'.

I'd actually rather not use svc as the prefix. This is my own silly thing,
but "svc" expands to "Stellation Version Control". We use it as a sort
of pun, because it's "cvs" backwards.

The reason that I don't like it is that in the software engineering 
research community, "version control" means something very weak
like rcs. Software configuration management is the name for more
advanced systems like ours. I tend to want to avoid anything that
might make people think Stellation is nothing but version control. 

Like I said, it's kind of silly.

I'd propose, as an alternative prefix, "stel_". 


> Since I'm on a Windows machine, I can't execute the test scripts. As a
> result, I'm not the ideal person to create a patch on all the sources
> with the changed table/column names. Who's volunteering? :)

Do the test scripts not work even with cygwin?

Unfortunately, I'm already ridiculously overcommitted. So I'm not
in a position to volunteer to do this. 

	-Mark
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