Re: Should rename "startup process" to something else? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should rename "startup process" to something else?
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Msg-id 182410.1637780854@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Should rename "startup process" to something else?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Nov-23, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bad memories of uuid-ossp float up ... can we use underscore?

> I don't object to an underscore, but it looks a bit uglier to me.
> AFAIK the main problem with uuid-ossp was that it is used as an identifier, so
> it required quoting, which won't be the case with this process name.

Well, we can call the process whatever we want, but we will need to
derive identifiers from that name, so you can't just ignore the issue.

            regards, tom lane



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