What's the strategy for naming things schema or namespace?  In notice that
pg_dump messages are all about namespaces.  That seems confusing from a
user's viewpoint.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:42:30 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Schema vs Namespace
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> What's the strategy for naming things schema or namespace?  In notice that
> pg_dump messages are all about namespaces.  That seems confusing from a
> user's viewpoint.

Probably the user-visible messages should all mention schemas.

I named the catalog pg_namespace because I didn't want to nail down
a presumption that the things in it are exactly equivalent to SQL
schemas; namespaces are an implementation mechanism to support schemas,
but not necessarily an equivalent concept.  But this bit of
implementation philosophy isn't very relevant for users.

			regards, tom lane

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:05:40 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Schema vs Namespace 