On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
>> >> There has been previous talk of allowing WITH (COPY ...) and I am
>> >> personally of the opinion that it would be nice to be able to do
>> >> WITH (EXPLAIN ...). DDL seems like a poor idea.
>> >
>> > It may be, but I can see use cases for partitioning...
>>
>> Like what?
>
> Managing partitions, or creating partitions in some way the partition
> syntax doesn't anticipate, whatever it turns out to be.
So, what is the syntax you're hoping will work?
>> >> P.S. Call me a prude, but your choice of shorthand for
>> >> insert-update-delete may not be the best.
>> >
>> > Then I presume you'll be supporting my idea of using the word
>> > "span" for temporal data types rather than the current idea whose
>> > name appears in academic literature.
>>
>> Wise guy.
>
> In all seriousness, the temporal stuff is giving us a fantastic
> opportunity, as a project, to break our tradition of lousy naming.
>
> "Span" is descriptive, mnemonic, and easy to spell.
I guess that's a flamewar for another day.
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