Re: language cleanups in code and docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: language cleanups in code and docs
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Msg-id c7f90f0c-03d9-3c1a-be41-1f7d8ecb6a24@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to Re: language cleanups in code and docs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 6/17/20 11:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 6/17/20 6:32 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> In looking at this I realize we also have exactly one thing referred
>>> to as "blacklist" in our codebase, which is the "enum blacklist" (and
>>> then a small internal variable in pgindent). AFAICT, it's not actually
>>> exposed to userspace anywhere, so we could probably make the attached
>>> change to blocklist at no "cost" (the only thing changed is the name
>>> of the hash table, and we definitely change things like that in normal
>>> releases with no specific thought on backwards compat).
>> I'm not sure I like doing s/Black/Block/ here. It reads oddly. There are
>> too many other uses of Block in the sources. Forbidden might be a better
>> substitution, or Banned maybe. BanList is even less characters than
>> BlackList.
> I think worrying about blacklist/whitelist is carrying things a bit far
> in the first place.


For the small effort and minimal impact involved, I think it's worth
avoiding the bad publicity.


cheers


andrew


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