[wp-hackers] PostgreSQL port status?

[Stephane Daury]

On Oct 02, 2007, at 23:15, Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 10/2/07, usleepless at gmail.com <usleepless at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But as Tom pointed out, (reserverd) keywords are ... well ... kind of
>> reserved. Don't use them as identifiers.
>
> I guess there is an added benefit of forward compatibility in escaping
> fields and table names.  Words which are not reserved now can become
> so in the future.

Having had to deal with the consequences of using a keyword that  
became reserved in an RDBMS later on once before (~10 years ago), I  
could not agree more with Leonid comment.

Stephane