Re: Support to define custom wait events for extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Support to define custom wait events for extensions
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Msg-id ZNnzUiB1KBZsUt+a@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Support to define custom wait events for extensions  (Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>)
Responses Re: Support to define custom wait events for extensions
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:55:42PM +0900, Masahiro Ikeda wrote:
> I'm thinking a name like "contrib name + description summary" would
> be nice. The "contrib name"  is namespace-like and the "description summary"
> is the same as the name of the waiting event name in core. For example,
> "DblinkConnect" for dblink. In the same as the core one, I thought the name
> should be the camel case.

Or you could use something more in line with the other in-core wait
events formatted as camel-case, like DblinkConnect, etc.

> BTW, is it better to discuss this in a new thread because other developers
> might be interested in user-facing wait event names? I also would like to
> add documentation on the wait events for each modules, as they are not mentioned
> now.

Saying that, having some documentation on the page of each extension
is mandatory once these can be customized, in my opinion.  All that
should be discussed on a new, separate thread, to attract the correct
audience.
--
Michael

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