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

> 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?)

Did you clean up the manual pages too?

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