Re: Heap page diagnostic functions

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Any suggestions? pgdiagnostics?
>>
>>> Yes, I like "diagnostics", or "internals". I just think forensics isn't
>>> going to be understood by the average native English speaker, let alone
>>> non-English speakers.
>>
>> "diagnostics" is a two-dollar word also. It might be a bit more widely
>> known than "forensics", but it's longer and harder to spell. Not that
>> I have any great suggestions to make. Maybe "pgtestfuncs"?
>
> I thought about pgdebugfuncs myself at first. But that's so generic and
> pgtestfuncs even more so. Diagnostics is pretty good, that word is in
> use in other languages as well as a medical term, so it's meaning would
> be clear to a lot of people even if they've never encountered the
> English word before.
>
> Besides, the audience for these functions is quite narrow: people
> working on PostgreSQL internals, so I don't think the language issue
> matters that much.

I did not find "forensics" in translator and It mentions in Oxford
vocabulary but explanation is not clear for me. I agree with Bruce It is
not good name. What about short form of diagnostic "diag"?

Zdenek