On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> It feels weird to me that the new columns are called transactionid and >> xmin. Why not xid and xmin? > > Actually the part of that that bothers me is "xmin", which conflicts > with a reserved system column name. While you can legally pick such > conflicting names for view columns, it's not going to be so much fun > when you try to join that view against some regular table.
That's a fair point, too. So maybe we should go with something like backend_xid and backend_xmin or some other prefix that we come up with. My concern is more that I think they should be consistent somehow. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
