On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:53:06AM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 06:48:51PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: >> Triggered by a discussion on IRC, I noticed that there's a stray >> reference to pg_relation in a comment that was added long after it was >> renamed to pg_class. Here's a patch to bring that up to speed. > >> pg_relation was renamed to pg_class in 1991, but this comment (added >> in 2004) missed the memo > > Huh, interesting! I dug around the Berkeley archives [0] and found > comments indicating that pg_relation was renamed to pg_class in Februrary > 1990. However, it looks like the file was named pg_relation.h until > Postgres95 v0.01, which has the following comment in pg_class.h: > > * ``pg_relation'' is being replaced by ``pg_class''. currently > * we are only changing the name in the catalogs but someday the > * code will be changed too. -cim 2/26/90 > * [it finally happens. -ay 11/5/94]
This comment actually lived in Postgres until 9cf80f2 (June 2000), too. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com