Thoughts about the stock quote database

[Phillip Shelton]

Doesn't leave much to work with.

> -----Original Message-----
> > Your second question: what do we do about stocks that change names
> > and/or ticker symbols?  This is an issue we haven't really
> > addressed.
> 
> If we could associate some unique id with a given commodity, we could
> use that across other changes, but which ones?  This is getting messy.
> I defintely don't know enough right now to know what the "constants"
> here are.  Company name changes are obviously ephemeral, but, thinking
> about it, it seems like ticker symbols, and perhaps even exchanges
> could be too...