On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 8:49 AM Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> > Hello Peter, > > > With the additional functionality, the --help synopsis of pg_checksums > > has gotten quite long: > > > > pg_checksums enables, disables, or verifies data checksums in a > > PostgreSQL database cluster. > > > > Can we try to shorten this a bit? Maybe > > > > pg_checksums manages data checksums in a PostgreSQL database cluster. > > > > Other ideas? > > My 0.02 €: > > pg_checksums triggers or verifies checksums in a Postgres cluster. > I think trigger is a bad word to use there, but I was already thinking to suggest something like "pg_checksums manages or verifies checksums in a PostgreSQL cluster", if that doesn't end up being too long? I like the somehow detailed functionality list, if space allows, so I > tried to compressed the other parts. > > Not sure that there could be a checksum on anything else but data. > Yeah, while we call them "data checksums" in most places, dropping the word data seems acceptable if we need to in order to get it short enough. I have decided that PostgreSQL is a mouthful, thus I'm rather using > "Postgres". > Changing that in one tool and not everything would of course be really silly. And if you want to bring up the renaming again, please do so on pgsql-advocacy as a separate topic :) -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
