Zdenek Kotala wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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.
"diagnostics" is a two-dollar word also. It might be a bit more widely
known than "forensics", but it's longer and harder to spell. Not that
I have any great suggestions to make. Maybe "pgtestfuncs"?
I thought about pgdebugfuncs myself at first. But that's so generic
and pgtestfuncs even more so. Diagnostics is pretty good, that word is
in use in other languages as well as a medical term, so it's meaning
would be clear to a lot of people even if they've never encountered
the English word before.
Besides, the audience for these functions is quite narrow: people
working on PostgreSQL internals, so I don't think the language issue
matters that much.
I did not find "forensics" in translator and It mentions in Oxford
vocabulary but explanation is not clear for me. I agree with Bruce It is
not good name. What about short form of diagnostic "diag"?
Webster lists "scientific analysis of physical evidence (as from a crime
scene)" as one meaning: http://www.webster.com/dictionary/forensics.
I'm going to go with pgdiagnostics. We could short it to just "pgdiag",
but that feels too short :). We could make it "pgdiagfuncs", but that's
not much shorter than pgdiagnostics.
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