Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql
Date: 2015-09-07 20:18:51
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCoBaV8uQ2Co6ciFV5Lk4f464mq8nSSsTHuFfuP-=w9=A@mail.gmail.com
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2015-09-07 22:14 GMT+02:00 Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
> wrote:
> > I'm not dead set on \rotate and suggested other names
> > previously in [1], but none of them seems decisively
> > superior.
>
>
> Fwiw I like \rotate. It's pretty clear what it means and it sounds
> similar to but not exactly the same as pivot.
>

rotate ~ sounds like transpose matrix, what is not true in this case.

Pavel

>
> --
> greg
>

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