I found this thread when trying to understand what RIR means in the source code. The explanation by Andres (which I find informative) is not in the code. Should we add it into the comment? I think it will be useful for readability.
Best,
Yue
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
On 2015-08-27 15:13:52 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > I searched the current code, all diffs to the current code, and the > mailing list, but still haven't got an actual clue what RIR is supposed > to stand for. There's a few things that come to mind (Rewrite Instead > Rule?), but none of them seem to make too much sense.
Looking over the original submission it seems to actually stand for retrieve-instead-retrieve (as somebody on IRC guessed). Doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
The explanation seems to have been removed way back, in f93b6974 .
