2010/1/24 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> 2010/1/24 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>> The pg_stat_ prefix is some help but not enough IMO. So I suggest
>>> pg_stat_reset_table_counters and pg_stat_reset_function_counters.
>
>> Doesn't the pg_stat_ part already say this?
>
> My objection is that "reset_table" sounds like something you do to a
> table, not something you do to stats. No, I don't think the prefix is
> enough to clarify that.
Fair enough, I'll just add the _counters to all three functions then.
>>> (BTW, a similar complaint could be made about the previously committed
>>> patch: reset shared what?)
>
>> Well, it could also be made about the original pg_stat_reset()
>> function - reset what?
>
> In that case, there's nothing but the "stat" to suggest what gets
> reset, so I think it's less likely to be misleading than the current
> proposals. But if we'd been designing all of these at once, yeah,
> I'd have argued for a more verbose name for that one too.
Ok.
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