On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 03:54:42PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Cabe Steele <cabesteele@gmail.com> writes:
> > What does reg mean? Regclass regtype, regoper, etc
>
> The origin is lost in the mists of time --- regproc dates back to
> Berkeley times, and the rest of those were named on its precedent.
> I've always supposed that it meant "registered", as in "entered in
> the system catalogs", but I wasn't there when regproc was invented.
>
> I wonder if there's any evidence for that ... [ digs ] ... ah-hah,
> ref.cat in the Postgres v4r2 tarball, dated 03/13/94, says
>
> POSTGRES Type Meaning Required
> ...
> regproc registered procedure *
> ...
Wow, nice sleuth work!
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