| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql |
| Date: | 2015-11-04 16:20:28 |
| Message-ID: | 563A304C.9050609@joeconway.com |
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On 11/04/2015 04:09 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I am looking on this last patch. I talked about the name of this command
> with more people, and the name "rotate" is unhappy. The correct name for
> this visualization technique is "crosstab" (see google "crosstab"). The
> conflict with our extension is unhappy, but using "rotate" is more worst
> - (see google "rotate"). The term "rotate" is used less time (related to
> topic), and usually with zero informed people. More, in attached doc,
> the word "crosstab" is pretty often used, and then the word "rotate" has
> not sense.
Apologies if this has already been suggested (as I have not followed the
entire thread), but if you don't want to conflict with the name
crosstab, perhaps "pivot" would be better?
Joe
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