Re: A question about wording in messages

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I saw the following message recently modified.
> >> This controls the maximum distance we can read ahead in the WAL to prefetch referenced data blocks.
> > Maybe the "we" means "PostgreSQL program and you" but I see it
> > somewhat out of place.
>
> +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.