| From: | Rakesh Kumar <rakeshkumar464(at)outlook(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Sachin Kotwal <kotsachin(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Naming conventions for column names |
| Date: | 2017-11-06 14:51:15 |
| Message-ID: | BN6PR22MB014526637463FEC3CA76BA208C500@BN6PR22MB0145.namprd22.prod.outlook.com |
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>Those naming conventions are twenty-five years old, and there is an
>astonishing amount of client code that would break if we ran around
>changing existing system catalog column names. It's very unlikely that
>any proposal to do that would even receive serious consideration.
>The bar to using new naming conventions in new catalogs would be
>lower, of course, but then you have to think about the confusion
>factor of having different naming styles in different places.
Isn't there a word for the above : Technology debt :-)
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