Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Any suggestions? pgdiagnostics?

Yes, I like "diagnostics", or "internals".  I just think forensics isn't
going to be understood by the average native English speaker, let alone
non-English speakers.

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> 
> I'm happy with forensics myself.
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Sounds good, though I am worried that "forensics" will not be a word
> > easily understood by non-native English speakers.
> > 
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> > 
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> I'm taking over Simon's heap page diagnostic functions to get them into 
> >> shape for committing.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of having a new contrib-module for them: pgforensics. All 
> >> the new functions go there, and I'm also going to move bt_page_items, 
> >> bt_page_stats, and bt_metap functions from pgstattuple to the new 
> >> module. They're all low-level functions that no application should be 
> >> calling, so there shouldn't be any compatibility issues in moving them.
> >>
> >> That'd leave only the functions that a DBA or tools should be concerned 
> >> with in pgstattuple, and all the low-level debugging aids to the new 
> >> module. Thoughts?
> >>
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