Discussion


The concept of value equivalent tuples has been shaped to be convenient when addressing concepts such as coalescing, normal forms, etc. The concept is distinct from related notions of the normal form SG1NF and mergeable tuples.

Phrases such as ``having the same visible attribute values'' and ``having duplicate values'' have been used previously.

The orthogonality criterion (+E1) is satisfied. Further, the concept is a straight-forward generalization of identity of tuples in the snapshot-relational model. There are no competing names (+E3), the name seems open-endend (+E4) and does not appear to have other meanings (+E5). Further, the name is consistent with existing terminology (+E7) and does not violate other criteria.