Re: A question about wording in messages

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A question about wording in messages
Date: 2022-09-20 04:30:40
Message-ID: CAA4eK1JeygCQDKUFt-DAXyM1iFN-Q4tEjFDFhoAsYTmEn4B59g@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:29 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > +1, I saw that today and thought it was outside our usual style.
> > > > The whole thing is awfully verbose for a GUC description, too.
> > > > Maybe
> > > >
> > > > "Maximum distance to read ahead in WAL to prefetch data blocks."
> > >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > For "we", I must have been distracted by code comment style. For the
> > > extra useless verbiage, it's common for GUC description to begin "This
> > > control/affects/blah" like that, but I agree it's useless noise.
> > >
> > > For the other cases, Amit's suggestion of 'server' seems sensible to me.
> >
> > Thaks for the opinion. I'm fine with that, too.
> >
>
> So, the change related to wal_decode_buffer_size needs to be
> backpatched to 15 whereas other message changes will be HEAD only, am
> I correct?
>

I would like to pursue as per above unless there is more feedback on this.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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