Re: System catalog documentation chapter

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: System catalog documentation chapter
Date: 2022-07-12 21:24:15
Message-ID: 1869011.1657661055@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> views.sgml is a pretty generic name for a chapter that just contains system
>> views.

> Yes, I struggled with that. What made me choose "views" is that the
> current name was catalogs.sgml, not syscatalogs.sgml. If is acceptable
> to use catalogs.sgml and sysviews.sgml?

"catalogs" isn't too confusable with user-defined objects, so I think
that name is fine --- and anyway it has decades of history so changing
it seems unwise.

We seem to have been trending towards less-abbreviated .sgml file names
over time, so personally I'd go for system-views.sgml.

regards, tom lane

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