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?)
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