On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management > application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical > data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We > are putting out our first release sometime in the next two > weeks. > > The idea is to name the production database "gnumed0.1" for > version 0.1 (gnumed0.2 etc for upcoming releases). I do > realize the "." may force me to quote the database name in, > say, a CREATE DATABASE call. I doubt you'll have any problems with the tools, but the quoting may prove painful. Why not replace the dot with an underscore? gnumed0_1 -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>) "Nadie esta tan esclavizado como el que se cree libre no siendolo" (Goethe) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq