[Koha-devel] [Discussion tech] database table naming

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Colin Campbell wrote:
> Why not just invoices, I think the prefixes are superfluous ( orders
> invoices etc are relevant objects outside of acquisition, serials uses
> them for instance and we dont need to distinguish them from some other
> type of order ) But just because we've done one more sensibly we dont
> need to bring the rest into line, I'm perfectly willing to continue
> cursing at that aq prefix (my fingers want to type acq) and we can
> postpone 'the great renaming' until we get around to something that
> requires the interface to the orders table to be updated.

I agree with Colin -- why not just call it 'invoices' and start dropping the prefix?  Furthermore, doing that is a way to get the renaming started.  However, ultimately I think it matters more that work proceed on adding invoice functionality rather than getting too hung up on the 'aq' prefix.

Regards,

Galen
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