Re: [SQLObject] naming conventions

[David M. C. <da...@da...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:11:01PM -0500, Luke Opperman wrote:

> I think Ian recently changed his mind to go with notNull, but was
> opposed to TextCol still (sorry if I'm misquoting you, Ian). My
> personal opinion is that anything that describes the database
> (notNull) should be in database-speak, otherwise it should be python.
> Columns are a little harder, as they cross bewteen the two;

I think Cols should have an attribute for database-specific type (if
available).  This allows querying for a database type that may be
significant to your UI, though not having a meaning in Python or not yet
being handled by a constraint/validation system.

Dave Cook