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Re: Column name beginning with underscore ("_")?

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On 11/4/24 12:02, Jim Rosenberg wrote:
Is it considered bad Postgresql practice to have a column name that begins
with the underscore character ("_")?

I'm not sure where this is documented, but I'm seeing that Postgresql
accepts prepending an underscore to a data type name as a kind of alias for
appending [] to define an array data type. So even though Postgresql
doesn't seem to have this problem, a human reader might confuse a column
name beginning with _ as an array data type reference.

Here is why I want to have some column names beginning with "_". I'm
designing a database to shadow a public agency's data. I need some columns
that reflect *my* shadow copy of the data, (like say download date) that
don't have any semantic import with respect to the original data.
Beginning such columns with "_" is a simple way to keep the column names
uncluttered but indicate to the reader that the column applies to *my
copy* but are not columns in the original data.

To reduce confusion something like?:

my_* or l(ocal)_*




Comments?



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Adrian Klaver
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