Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Dean Rasheed's message: >> Well ELEMENT is a reserved keyword in SQL:2008, to support >> multisets, so if we ever supported that feature... > > Hah! > > Well, here's a patch for LABEL in any case. If we're going to > have to reserve ELEMENT in the future then there doesn't seem to > be much point in not choosing that one though. FWIW, I like ELEMENT better than LABEL. The reason I don't like VALUE is that you are specifying the logical *name* of the entry, and it seems clumsy not to have a convenient word for the value that the name maps to, internally. You're actually adding the name and assigning it a value, which corresponds well to ELEMENT. -Kevin
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