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		jvm on July 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: Import Foreign Sch... > There is no other language that I write in where I don't use camel-case or underscore underscore is standard for user-defined words (variables, table, databases). All-caps distinguishes built-ins to avoid confusion with user-defined. IMO with conventions, consistency is more important than the convention itself.

glibgil on July 14, 2014 [–]

The keywords are called that because they are few and known. Their key-ness is what distinguishes them.

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