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

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > 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? :(
>
> Eh?  Table, row, column *are* the SQL terminology.  The others are
> leftovers from PostQuel, and it's been a long time since we've used
> them consistently anyway.

Okay, then its definitely me confused here ... "The Practical SQL
Handbook", which I don' thave in front of me ... it doesn't refer to
things as table/row/column ... does it?