[Bucardo-general] End the Cutesy

[David E. Wheeler]

On Oct 17, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at endpoint.com> wrote:

> (Way too busy this week to reply to everything yet, but keep the 
> questions and bug reports and patches coming!)

Not patches. I'm just committing willy-nilly to master. I like to live on the edge.

> +1 for changing the names. Note that this has already partly happened: we 
> encourage people to do 'bucardo add table..' now instead of 'bucardo add goat..'.
> Not 100% sure I like relation. It's a pretty obscure term for non-db-theory 
> folk, and Postgres doesn't push it very heavy on casual users. I also don't 
> want to paint ourselves into a corner in case we end up replicating something 
> someday that is not what Postgres considers a relation. But perhaps it's 
> not important anyway, if we keep it semi-hidden and just let people use 
> 'table', 'sequence', 'view', etc.

Well, perhaps I'll see about eliminating the word "goat" from the options and docs altogether. Might be possible. if not, I'll use "relation"

>> Change "herd" to "relgroup"
> 
> This is the part that really undoes the above, however. I think relgroup 
> does make the most sense, or at least XXgroup. Or even just 'group'.
> Feel free to make the change, if you want, I don't think I will come 
> up with better terms and if I do, I have a commit bit as well. :)

Sounds like a plan, thanks.

David

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