Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql
Date
Msg-id 563A304C.9050609@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  ("Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>)
Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On 11/04/2015 04:09 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I am looking on this last patch. I talked about the name of this command
> with more people, and the name "rotate" is unhappy. The correct name for
> this visualization technique is "crosstab" (see google "crosstab"). The
> conflict with our extension is unhappy, but using "rotate" is more worst
> - (see google "rotate"). The term "rotate" is used less time (related to
> topic), and usually with zero informed people. More, in attached doc,
> the word "crosstab" is pretty often used, and then the word "rotate" has
> not sense.

Apologies if this has already been suggested (as I have not followed the
entire thread), but if you don't want to conflict with the name
crosstab, perhaps "pivot" would be better?

Joe

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