Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-10-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 02:14:48PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2024-Aug-30, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > > I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about > > the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you > > don't follow Planet Postgr

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-09-11 We 8:34 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: There are some serious obstacles to changing it all over, though. I don't want to rewrite all the history, for example. Because of the way git works, that really wouldn't be an issue. We'd just

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: > There are some serious obstacles to changing it all over, though. I > don't want to rewrite all the history, for example. Because of the way git works, that really wouldn't be an issue. We'd just push the tip of the master branch to main and

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-09-09 Mo 3:54 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 2024-09-09 Mo 1:19 PM, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: I guess I could try to write code to migrate everything, but it would be somewhat fragile. And what would we do if we ever decided to migrate "m

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-10 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 11:50 AM Nathan Bossart wrote: > Do you think these acronyms make it difficult for some to contribute to > Postgres? I've always felt that they were pretty easy to figure out and a > nice way to save some typing for common phrases, but I'm not sure it's ever > really been

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 7:20 PM Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > I guess I could try to write code to migrate everything, but it would be > > somewhat fragile. And what would we do if we ever decided to migrate > > "master" to another name like "main"?

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-09-09 Mo 1:19 PM, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: I guess I could try to write code to migrate everything, but it would be somewhat fragile. And what would we do if we ever decided to migrate "master" to another name like "main"? I do at least h

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-09 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I guess I could try to write code to migrate everything, but it would be > somewhat fragile. And what would we do if we ever decided to migrate > "master" to another name like "main"? I do at least have code ready for > that eventuality, but i

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-09-08 Su 11:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: David Rowley writes: I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that. Thanks for getting that right in your blog post. IIRC, HEAD *was* the technically correct te

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-08 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 11:35:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Rowley writes: >> I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest >> commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that. >> Thanks for getting that right in your blog post. > > IIRC, HEAD *was* t

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
David Rowley writes: > I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest > commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that. > Thanks for getting that right in your blog post. IIRC, HEAD *was* the technically correct term back when we were using CVS. Old habit

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-08 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about > the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you > don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and > gathered the most used acronyms and jargon. The most commonly used

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-08 Thread David Rowley
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 04:02, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about the > hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you don't > follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and gathered

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2024-Aug-30, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about > the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you > don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and > gathered the most used

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-03 Thread Nathan Bossart
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about > the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you > don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-02 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 2 Sep 2024, at 13:06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > > Greg Sabino Mullane writes: > >> I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about >> the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you >> don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the

Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

2024-09-02 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Greg Sabino Mullane writes: > I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about > the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let people know about it in case you > don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and > gathered the most used acronyms and j