| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut - PostgreSQL <petere(at)hub(dot)org>, <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml admin.sgml advanced.sgml ar ... |
| Date: | 2001-01-14 03:40:15 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.31.0101132338490.500-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>> Log message:
> >>>> Terminology cleanup: class -> table, instance -> row, attribute -> column,
> >>>> etc.
> >>
> >> Yeeh.
>
> > sad, actually ... we try to be SQL complaint, yet we can't handle the
> > terminology? :(
>
> Eh? Table, row, column *are* the SQL terminology. The others are
> leftovers from PostQuel, and it's been a long time since we've used
> them consistently anyway.
Okay, then its definitely me confused here ... "The Practical SQL
Handbook", which I don' thave in front of me ... it doesn't refer to
things as table/row/column ... does it?
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