Re: pg_statistic_ext.staenabled might not be the best column name

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-04-13T16:31:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 4/13/17 08:37, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> We have a bunch of > 3-character prefixes already: amop*, amproc*, 
> >> enum*, cast*. But I think I nevertheless like "ste" better.
> 
> > "stx" perhaps?
> 
> > I would also be in favor of changing it to something other than "sta".
> 
> "stx" sounds pretty good to me --- it seems like e.g. "stxkind" is
> more visibly distinct from "stakind" than "stekind" would be.
> 
> Any objections out there?

stx sounds good to me too.  I'll see about a patch this afternoon.

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Commits

  1. Rename columns in new pg_statistic_ext catalog