I found this thread when trying to understand what RIR means in the source code. The explanation by Andres (which I find informative) is not in the code. Should we add it into the comment? I think it will be useful for readability.
Best, Yue On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2015-08-27 15:13:52 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > I searched the current code, all diffs to the current code, and the > > mailing list, but still haven't got an actual clue what RIR is supposed > > to stand for. There's a few things that come to mind (Rewrite Instead > > Rule?), but none of them seem to make too much sense. > > Looking over the original submission it seems to actually stand for > retrieve-instead-retrieve (as somebody on IRC guessed). Doesn't seem to > make much sense to me. > > The explanation seems to have been removed way back, in f93b6974 . > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hack...@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > > >
