Re: suggest to rename enable_incrementalsort - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: suggest to rename enable_incrementalsort
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Msg-id 2079434.1592842594@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: suggest to rename enable_incrementalsort  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:41:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe I'm just used to the names, but I find that things like
>> "enable_seqscan" and "enable_nestloop" are pretty readable.
>> Once they get longer, though, not so much.  So I agree with
>> renaming enable_incrementalsort.

> I think the big problem is that, without the extra underscore, it reads
> as increment-alsort.  ;-)

Yeah, the longer the name gets, the harder it is to see where the
word boundaries are.

            regards, tom lane



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