diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index 88a4f8edb5..96817c05cf 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + SQL Syntax @@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input: -SELECT * FROM my_table; -UPDATE my_table SET a = 5; -INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (3, 'hi there'); +SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE; +UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5; +INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there'); This is a sequence of three commands, one per line (although this is not required; more than one command can be on a line, and @@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (3, 'hi there'); Key words and unquoted identifiers are case insensitive. Therefore: -UPDATE my_table SET a = 5; +UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5; can equivalently be written as: -UPDATE my_table SET a = 5; +uPDaTE my_TabLE SeT a = 5; A convention often used is to write key words in upper case and names in lower case, e.g.: