Re: What is the meaning of # and $ characters in database object names?

ricforduk_at_yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> joel garry wrote:
> > I'm positive I worked on O3 in 1983 on V3 VMS. $ was definitely a
> > DECism for system things. On RSTS/E, it meant the system account,
> > [1,2] IIRC.
>
> Yes, I think you're right about 1983. Now you've jogged my memory I
> believe I first used Oracle on LSI 11/73 under RSX early in '83 then
> quickly moved to O3 on VAX 11/750 (16MB RAM, 90MB disk) later that
> year. The move to O3 was important to us as it introduced AIJ (After
> Image Journaling) - the precursor to redo. Glad to know I'm not the
> only veteran still working.
> Cheers,
> Ric.

Memory jogging very slowly... ah, thanks to wikipedia: "In every project, the programmer number 0 was usually reserved as a group account, as it could be referenced by the special symbol #. If one's user number were [20,103], a reference to a file name beginning with "#" would refer to a file stored in the account of the user number [20,0]. "

jg

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