On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2015-09-07 22:14 GMT+02:00 Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu>: > >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> >> wrote: >> > I'm not dead set on \rotate and suggested other names >> > previously in [1], but none of them seems decisively >> > superior. >> >> >> Fwiw I like \rotate. It's pretty clear what it means and it sounds >> similar to but not exactly the same as pivot. >> > > rotate ~ sounds like transpose matrix, what is not true in this case. > > So? If PostgreSQL had any native matrix processing capabilities this would maybe warrant a bit of consideration. https://github.com/hadley/tidyr \spread \unfold \rotate Given the role that psql performs I do think \rotate to be the least problematic choice; I concur that avoiding \pivot is desirable due to SQL's usage. David J.
