Re: Regclass what does reg mean

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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