On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/04/sqlalchemy_types.html > > Is there a reason why I can define my column with > Integer or INTEGER > but not > Decimal,Text,Blob etc. > > Shouldn't there be some kind of consistency? Either Capitalized > letters or ALLCAPS, or Both on all types. > Unless there is a reason why this is made like this. captialized refers to a SQL standard type, whereas non-capitalized is a "generic" type that may resolve differently on different database backends. so for Decimal we have "Numeric", for Blob we have "Binary". we should have "Text" and not TEXT in the base since TEXT does not compile to TEXT on all platforms...added ticket #912 for that. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
