Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql

On 5 November 2015 at 05:22, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I understand to text on wiki, the name is used for tool, that can do
> little bit more things, but it is often used for this technique (so it is
> much better than "rotate"). I don't understand well, why "crosstab" is too
> wrong name. This is pretty similar to COPY - and I know, so in first minutes
> hard to explain this difference between COPY and \copy to beginners, but
> after day of using there is not any problem.

I see constant confusion between \copy and COPY. It's a really good
reason NOT to overload other psql commands IMO.

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