Re: What does RIR as in fireRIRrules stand for?

I found this thread when trying to understand what RIR means in the source
code. The explanation by Andres (which I find informative) is not in the
code. Should we add it into the comment? I think it will be useful for
readability.

Best,
Yue

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2015-08-27 15:13:52 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I searched the current code, all diffs to the current code, and the
> > mailing list, but still haven't got an actual clue what RIR is supposed
> > to stand for. There's a few things that come to mind (Rewrite Instead
> > Rule?), but none of them seem to make too much sense.
>
> Looking over the original submission it seems to actually stand for
> retrieve-instead-retrieve (as somebody on IRC guessed). Doesn't seem to
> make much sense to me.
>
> The explanation seems to have been removed way back, in f93b6974 .
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>
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