Re: [HACKERS] other changes

>
> Also, during the pgindent run, we have TypeTupleForm and
> AttributeTupleForm, while we also have Form_pg_class, etc.
>
> Seems they should be named similar. It will make the Developers FAQ
> item 9 easier to understand if we have uniform way to cast a HeapTuple
> pointer.
>
> TypeTupleForm -> Form_pg_type
>
> In fact the comments in pg_type.h talk about Form_pg_type, but they then
> define TypeTupleForm.
>
> Any problems with changing this?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> /* ----------------
> * Form_pg_type corresponds to a pointer to a row with
> * the format of pg_type relation.
> * ----------------
> */
> typedef TypeTupleFormData *TypeTupleForm;
>

There is a lot of 'ObjectVerb' naming in postgres. And some the other way too.
Personally, having looked at Illustra code a few years, I am quite comfortable
with the 'TypeTupleForm' flavor and would be badly confused by 'Form_pg_type'
as I think of the result of the call as a 'TypeTuple', not as a 'pg_type'.

Also, I suspect the TypeTupleForm style usage is more common in the code.

-dg

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