Re: Proposal for ISSUE-65

* Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com> [2011-08-30 11:08-0400]
> All --
> 
> Thank you; this discussion helped clarify my own thinking.
> 
> > [[
> > PROPOSAL: For a foreign key of any arity, the reference property 
> > IRI is of the form <Table#ref-attr1-attr2-...-attrn>. This will 
> > address ISSUE-65
> > ]]
> 
> 
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Juan Sequeda wrote:
> > So I guess we are down to choosing between '.' and '-'
> 
> In my experience, '-' is far more commonly used within SQL
> identifiers than '.', and thus likely to cause more confusion,
> even if both do require escaping.  '.' is consistently used as
> a separator; this is just a different kind of separation.

I have to say this surprises me quite a lot, both because of what I've seen and because '-' isn't allowed in non-quoted identifiers (while '.' is). Could you give an example?

> So, my preference is for '.' ... and I expect to be on the call.
> 
> 
> > Can we just vote on this tomorrow and close this issue?
> 
> *crossing my fingers*
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> > Juan Sequeda
> > +1-575-SEQ-UEDA
> > www.juansequeda.com
> 
> --
> A: Yes.                      http://www.guckes.net/faq/attribution.html
> | Q: Are you sure?
> | | A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> | | | Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
> 
> Ted Thibodeau, Jr.           //               voice +1-781-273-0900 x32
> Evangelism & Support         //        mailto:tthibodeau@openlinksw.com
>                              //              http://twitter.com/TallTed
> OpenLink Software, Inc.      //              http://www.openlinksw.com/
>         10 Burlington Mall Road, Suite 265, Burlington MA 01803
>                                  http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/uda/
> OpenLink Blogs              http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/virtuoso/
>                                http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
>     Universal Data Access and Virtual Database Technology Providers
> 
> 
> 
> 



-- 
-ericP

Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:21:45 UTC