| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql |
| Date: | 2015-11-05 06:39:59 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsr+YH3W=fqvr0qxWAgi7rLCNGrqZ_fjb=OkWjpVUxNXwGEiQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 5 November 2015 at 05:22, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> If I understand to text on wiki, the name is used for tool, that can do
> little bit more things, but it is often used for this technique (so it is
> much better than "rotate"). I don't understand well, why "crosstab" is too
> wrong name. This is pretty similar to COPY - and I know, so in first minutes
> hard to explain this difference between COPY and \copy to beginners, but
> after day of using there is not any problem.
I see constant confusion between \copy and COPY. It's a really good
reason NOT to overload other psql commands IMO.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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