On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Gavin Flower <gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote: > On 18/05/16 09:34, Vik Fearing wrote: >> On 17/05/16 21:32, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> >>> Is SCAN_ALL really the best we can do here? The business of having an >>> underscore in an option name has no precedent (other than >>> CURRENT_DATABASE and the like). >> >> ALTER DATABASE has options for ALLOW_CONNECTIONS, CONNECTION_LIMIT, and >> IS_TEMPLATE. >> >>> How about COMPLETE, TOTAL, or WHOLE? >> >> Sure, I'll play this game. I like EXHAUSTIVE. > > I prefer 'WHOLE', as it seems more obvious (and not because of the pun > relating to 'wholesomeness'!!!)
I think that users might believe that they need VACUUM (WHOLE) a lot more often than they will actually need this option. "Of course I want to vacuum my whole table!" I think we should give this a name that hints more strongly at this being an exceptional thing, like vacuum (even_frozen_pages). -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers