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 ;-)
regards, tom lane