Re: What does RIR as in fireRIRrules stand for? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From fred yin
Subject Re: What does RIR as in fireRIRrules stand for?
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In response to Re: What does RIR as in fireRIRrules stand for?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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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 .

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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