Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml admin.sgml advanced.sgml ar ... - Mailing list pgsql-committers

> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > Log message:
> > >     Terminology cleanup: class -> table, instance -> row, attribute -> column,
> > >     etc.
> >
> > Yeeh.
>
> sad, actually ... we try to be SQL complaint, yet we can't handle the
> terminology? :(

Yes, I know we are baby-ing the terminology. My feeling is that this
stuff is complicated enough, and we should make it as easy as possible,
but I realize this is debatable.

Someone brought this about my book's use of terminology.

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