Re: slotname vs slot_name

On 2014-06-05 14:12:31 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 01:57 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >On 2014-06-05 10:57:58 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> >We have:
> >* pg_ldecoding (Heikki)
> >* pg_lcse or pg_lcset (Petr)
> >* pg_logical (Andres)
> >
> >I like, what a surprise, my own suggestion best. The name seems more
> >versatile because it's not restricted to decoding.
>
> The problem with pg_logical is that it's not restricted to much at all ;-),
> "logical" is an awfully generic name.

So is base/, global/, pg_stat/,... I don't think we need
uber-descriptive names here. I do think it's descriptive enough that
unrelated data won't be looked for in there. And imo that's the case.

> BTW, the stuff that we have in pg_llog are not really logs at all, so
> pg_llog was always a misnomer.

I'm not fighting for it :).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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