Thanks, I have "reworded" the email (replaced "transaction" with
"purchase"). The email has now been sent to the pgsql-sql mailing list.
Craig Ringer wrote:
> Allan Kamau wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a plain sql problem (didn't know where else to post it).
>>
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> pgsql-sql
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>> I have a list of transactions (market basket) ...
>>
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> Your use of the term "transaction" for a database entity is really
> confusing, and will make it significantly harder for others to
> understand and work with your schema. It might be worth renaming the
> entity to avoid the conflict with the meaning of "transaction" as
> "atomic unit of work" as controlled by BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK .
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
