| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml admin.sgml advanced.sgml ar ... |
| Date: | 2001-01-14 17:30:39 |
| Message-ID: | 200101141730.MAA28765@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I think relational algebra uses the terms relation/attribute and stuff.
> > The standards themselves use the more common names table/column. I
> > think Date's stuff uses the relational algebra names, and most academic
> > papers do perhaps.
>
> It wouldn't be a problem if the terminology were used consistently but
> there was a clear tendency that newer and older documentation was getting
> out of sync. It looked downright silly in some situations. (CREATE TABLE
> creates a table, not a class, right?)
Did you clean up the manual pages too?
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