Re: pgsql: Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module

Hi,

On 2023-01-25 14:05:39 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I wanted to merge basic_archive and basic_recovery because there's a decent
> > chunk of duplicated code. Perhaps that is okay, but I would rather just
> > have one test module. AFAICT the biggest reason to split it is because we
> > can't determine a good name. Maybe we could leave the name as
> > "basic_archive" since it deals with creating and recovering archive files.
>
> Yeah, maybe. I'm not sure what the best thing to do is, but if I see a
> module called basic_archive or basic_restore, I know what it's about,
> whereas basic_wal_module seems a lot less specific. It sounds like it
> could be generating or streaming it just as easily as it could be
> archiving it. It would be nice to have a name that is less prone to
> that kind of unclarity.

I think it'd be just fine to keep the name as basic_archive and use it for
both archiving and restoring. Restoring from an archive still deals with
archiving.

I agree that basic_wal_module isn't a good name.

Greetings,

Andres Freund