Naming of pg_checksums
Is there a reason pg_checksums is plural and not singular, i.e.,
pg_checksum? I know it is being renamed for PG 12. It might have
needed to be plural when it was pg_verify_checksums.
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On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 01:56:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Is there a reason pg_checksums is plural and not singular, i.e.,
pg_checksum? I know it is being renamed for PG 12. It might have
needed to be plural when it was pg_verify_checksums.
Because it applies to checksums to many pages first, and potentially
to more things than data checksums in the future if we want to extend
it with more checksum-related things? In short I'd like to think that
the plural is just but fine. If somebody wishes to do again a
renaming, that's fine by me as well but I don't think the current name
is an issue.
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Michael
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:56 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
Is there a reason pg_checksums is plural and not singular, i.e.,
pg_checksum? I know it is being renamed for PG 12. It might have
needed to be plural when it was pg_verify_checksums.
That is a good question, IMHO. I am not sure whether pg_checksum is
better, but I'm pretty sure it's not worse.
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