On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:05:16PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Brage F�rland wrote:
> 
> >The columns belonging to a foreign key are named 'Child columns' in the
> >properties pane. Any reason they are not just called 'Columns'? 
> >
> and the property dialog calls it "local column"....
> When working with design tools, I always wondered which column is on 
> which side of the reference. I want the namings to clearly indicate 
> this, so how should we name that beast?

Quoting the PostgreSQL manual:
  
  [...]
  We say that in this situation the orders table is the referencing table
  and the products table is the referenced table. Similarly, there are
  referencing and referenced columns.

However, I should think it would suffice to call the 'local columns' just
columns and the referenced columns, well, 'referenced columns' in most
situations.


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