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

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql
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Msg-id CAFj8pRCoBaV8uQ2Co6ciFV5Lk4f464mq8nSSsTHuFfuP-=w9=A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql  ("Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>)
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2015-09-07 22:14 GMT+02:00 Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> I'm not dead set on \rotate and suggested other names
> previously in [1], but none of them seems decisively
> superior.


Fwiw I like \rotate. It's pretty clear what it means and it sounds
similar to but not exactly the same as pivot.

rotate ~ sounds like transpose matrix, what is not true in this case.

Pavel
 

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