Re: what's the meaning of the word "Tioga" in source - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: what's the meaning of the word "Tioga" in source
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Msg-id 20020210124310.K88323-100000@earth.hub.org
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In response to Re: what's the meaning of the word "Tioga" in source  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Ummm:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/2143.html

Tioga: A Database-Oriented Visualization Tool




On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Weiping He <laser@zhengmai.com.cn> writes:
> >     I'm translating those backend NLS strings, but I can't figure out
> > what's the meaning of the word "recipe" (I guess it's not the normal
> > meaning),
> > searching through the source, I found that they belong to
> > backend/tioga/tgRecipe.c,
> > but the source didn't give me any help, so ask here:
> > what's the meaning of the wrod "tioga", I think it's a abbreviation,
> > right?
>
> It's just an old Berkeley project name without any particular meaning.
>
> More to the point: the tioga code is all dead and unlikely to be
> resurrected, as is everything to do with recipes in the backend.
> You don't need to worry about translating anything that comes out
> of that code.
>
> Peter: it'd be a good idea to suppress gathering NLS messages out of
>     src/backend/commands/_deadcode/
>     src/backend/executor/_deadcode/
>     src/backend/optimizer/path/_deadcode/
>     src/backend/tioga/
> as well as anything inside #ifdef NOT_USED.  Dunno how difficult that
> is with the gettext tools, though.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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