Re: logical column position

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > Actually, I deliberately chose attpos rather than attlognum (which is
> > what some people had been calling this feature earlier). My reasoning
> > was that the "logical number" is really a nonsensical idea: we just
> > invented it on the spot.
> 
> True ...
> 
> > In contrast, a "position" is a fairly natural
> > thing for an attribute to have -- it's a notion with some counterpart
> > in the real world.
> 
> But "position" could at least as logically be considered to mean the
> physical position in the tuple.  I still say that these names are ripe
> for confusion.
> 
> I don't have a better choice of name offhand, but if we spend 1% of the
> time already spent arguing about these issues on finding a better name,
> I'm sure we can think of one ;-)
> 

Seems merging the two would work... attlogpos, the attributes logical
position.

Robert Treat
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