Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>
Subject: Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
Date: 2009-08-04 13:41:13
Message-ID: 21798.1249393273@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * KaiGai Kohei (kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com) wrote:
>> My concern is "access_control_" is a bit long for prefixes,
>> but "ac_" is too short to represent what it is doing.

> pg_ac_? Still shorter than 'security_', uses the pg_ prefix, which we
> use in a number of other places, and has 'ac' in it..

I don't see anything wrong with "ac_". Short is good, and there isn't
any other concept in the PG internals that it would conflict with.
If there were, "pg_ac_" would surely not help to disambiguate.

regards, tom lane

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