Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 04:27:13PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> However, I think we should also give serious consideration to >> "debug_clobber_cache" or "debug_clobber_cache_always" for continuity >> with past practice (though it still feels like "always" is a good >> word to lose now). "debug_clobber_caches" is another reasonable >> variant.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobbering refers to cases where storage had no > changes to its accessibility but now contains different data. That doesn't > match InvalidateSystemCaches() especially well, so I think dropping that word > has been a good step. Some other shorter terms could be debug_flush_caches, > debug_rebuild_caches, or debug_expire_caches. (debug_caches is tempting, but > that may ensnare folks looking for extra logging rather than a big slowdown.) I like "debug_flush_caches" --- it's short and accurate. regards, tom lane
