Re: Call for testing experimental patch

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On 9/19/06, David Tangye <..hidden..> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:27 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > I think it is too late to change the name of the table to
> > transactions, but I will consider it.
> Its never too late to correct something, *if* its not right, surely?

You have a point.  But I don't think this is at this point an issue of
one being "right" and the other being "not right" at the moment.  In
this case, I think it is a matter of stylistics.  Both names are
adequate and adequately descriptive, and both names have some slight
shortcomings.
> Hmm, put another way: Ouch, isn't this sounding a tad like the sort of
> reaction we did not like when it came out of the SL camp?

If you make a case that it is broken, we will fix it :-)  Right now,
this is a matter of whether we have consistant style and type a few
extra characters or whether we shorten the name a bit and change the
style of the rest of the db as we rewrite it.  I think it is too late
to revisit this sort of decision unless a case can be made that it is
materially wrong.  Otherwise, we can stop coding while we debate in
minute detail the arbitrary decisions made in the coding standards.
:-)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers