Re: chosing a database name

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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
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Or why bother including either? Just use sequential integers, maybe
left-padded with zeros to make the name the same length for the first
thousand or so releases?