Re: Operator class group proposal

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 11:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > How about "hyperclass" then? :-) Maybe "school" :-D
>
> So I finally went and looked at a thesaurus, and came up with some
> possibilities:
>
> category variety family crowd cluster flock pack troop gang clique
> circle cabal association society union ensemble
>
> "Operator family" seems like it might be a good choice.
> One small problem with it is that in biology, "family" is a smaller
> group than "class" ... but if we want to follow the biologists,
> the only bigger groups than classes are "phylums" and "kingdoms",
> neither of which seem like good words to use.
>
> "Operator cluster" isn't too bad either, except that it might create
> confusion with the other index-related meaning of "cluster".

group?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
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