Re: Our naming of wait events is a disaster.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:16 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I've been trying to reformat table 27.4 (wait events) to fit
>> into PDF output, which has caused me to study its contents
>> more than I ever had before.

> That reminds me that it might be easier to maintain that table if we
> broke it up into one table per major category - that is, one table for
> lwlocks, one table for IPC, one table for IO, etc. - instead of a
> single table with a row-span number that is large and frequently
> updated incorrectly.

Yeah, see my last attempt at

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/26961.1589260206%40sss.pgh.pa.us

I'm probably going to go with that, but as given that patch conflicts
with my other pending patch to change the catalog description tables,
so I want to push that other one first and then clean up the wait-
event one. In the meantime, I'm going to look at these naming issues,
which will also be changing that patch ...

regards, tom lane