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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2017-04-13T16:17:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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?

			regards, tom lane

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