Re: Naming of the different stats systems / "stats collector"

Hi,

On 2022-03-08 20:17:06 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 7:32 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> > we need a descriptive term / shorthand that
> > describes the type of statistics we currently send to the stats collector.
> >
> > "cumulative stats subsystem"?
> >
> >
> I'm growing fond of "cumulative". It is more precise (and restrictive)
> than "metric" but that is beneficial here so long as it is indeed true
> (which a quick skim of Table 28.2. Collected Statistics Views [1] leads me
> to believe it is).

I did go for that one - I think it looks better than the other
alternatives. Should you be interested, I posted a version using that name at
[1]. The majority of the changes related to the naming are in 0005, 0026,
0028...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220404041516.cctrvpadhuriawlq%40alap3.anarazel.de