On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 21:10 +0200, Erik Wienhold wrote:
> > On 24/05/2023 15:46 CEST Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> wrote:
> > 
> > Personally, I think it should read cartesian product because cross product 
> > is
> > an overloaded term and cartesian product is used more often in the 
> > documentation
> > overall.
> > 
> > But the same page [0] also uses cross product when talking about grouping 
> > sets.
> > 
> > [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/queries-table-expressions.html
> 
> Here's a patch that fixes those two places.

+1

"Cross product" seems to be a misbegotten hybrid of "cross join" and
"Cartesian product".

Since we are talking about Cartesian products: is the term "Cartesian join"
used anywhere?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


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