Re: PostgreSQL Naming Rules

Robert Buckley wrote:
> according to this article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of
> tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an underscore or letter. Nothing
> is however said about in which character set.
>
> Am I allowed to name a table field < Änderung_1 >. The Ä is a german letter contained within the UTF8
> character set.

You can, but it's a really bad idea to have non-ASCII names.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe