On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2015-10-31 11:02:12 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 1 October 2015 at 23:30, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> On 10/01/2015 07:43 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > > >> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> >> I wonder how much it's worth renaming only the file extension while > > >> >> there are many places where "visibility map" and "vm" are used, > > >> >> for example, log messages, function names, variables, etc. > > >> > > > >> > I'd be inclined to keep calling it the visibility map (vm) even if it > > >> > also contains freeze information. > > >> > > > > > What is your main worry about changing the name of this map, is it > > about more code churn or is it about that we might introduce new issues > > or is it about that people are already accustomed to call this map as > > visibility map? > > Several: > * Visibility map is rather descriptive, none of the replacement terms > imo come close. Few people will know what a 'freeze' map is. > * It increases the size of the patch considerably > * It forces tooling that knows about the layout of the database > directory to change their tools >
All these points are legitimate.
> On the benfit side the only argument I've heard so far is that it allows > to disambiguate the format. But, uh, a look at the major version does > that just as well, for far less trouble. > > > It seems to me quite logical for understanding purpose as well. Any new > > person who wants to work in this area or is looking into it will always > > wonder why this map is named as visibility map even though it contains > > information about visibility of page as well as frozen state of page. > > Being frozen is about visibility as well. >
OTOH being visible doesn't mean page is frozen. I understand that frozen is
related to visibility, but still it is a separate state of page and used for different
purpose. I think this is a subjective point and we could go either way, it is
just a matter in which way more people are comfortable.
