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To: Cabe Steele <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Regclass what does reg mean
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 15:54:42 -0500
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Cabe Steele <[email protected]> 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 *
...
regards, tom lane
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