>Those naming conventions are twenty-five years old, and there is an
>astonishing amount of client code that would break if we ran around
>changing existing system catalog column names. It's very unlikely that
>any proposal to do that would even receive serious consideration.
>The bar to using new naming conventions in new catalogs would be
>lower, of course, but then you have to think about the confusion
>factor of having different naming styles in different places.
Isn't there a word for the above : Technology debt :-)
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