Re: Writeable CTEs Desgin Doc on Wiki

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> >> There has been previous talk of allowing WITH (COPY ...) and I am
> >> personally of the opinion that it would be nice to be able to do
> >> WITH (EXPLAIN ...).  DDL seems like a poor idea.
> >
> > It may be, but I can see use cases for partitioning...
>
> Like what?

Managing partitions, or creating partitions in some way the partition
syntax doesn't anticipate, whatever it turns out to be.

> >> P.S. Call me a prude, but your choice of shorthand for
> >> insert-update-delete may not be the best.
> >
> > Then I presume you'll be supporting my idea of using the word
> > "span" for temporal data types rather than the current idea whose
> > name appears in academic literature.
>
> Wise guy.

In all seriousness, the temporal stuff is giving us a fantastic
opportunity, as a project, to break our tradition of lousy naming.

"Span" is descriptive, mnemonic, and easy to spell.

Cheers,
David.
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