| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_checkpointer is not a verb or verb phrase |
| Date: | 2022-07-01 13:18:12 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZSa_cQrz3MH3=cOQn6BgTbeq07GQuc9HoHZPY-UfRQ9w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:22 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> "checkpoint" is not a verb (right?), so would something like
> "pg_perform_checkpoint" rather than "pg_checkpoint" fit better in the
> larger picture?
It's true that the dictionary describes checkpoint as a noun, but I
think in a database context it is often used as a verb. One example is
the CHECKPOINT command itself: command names are all verbs, and
CHECKPOINT is a command name, so we're using it as a verb. Similarly I
think you can talk about needing to checkpoint the database. Therefore
I think pg_checkpoint is OK, and it has the advantage of being short.
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Robert Haas
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