On Monday, July 14, 2025, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > If we accept that we use the words statement and command interchangeably > > then the sole remaining use of command here sticks out because now we > have > > to explain why commands are different from statements. I'd rather just > > remove the parenthetical. It's poorly clarifying a point that it seems > you > > don't want to clarify more fully here. > > [ shrug... ] I'm inclined to go back to the "command message" wording > then. I don't find "client-issued statement" to be helpful at all; > in particular, it's flat wrong for the multi-statement-query-message > case, because surely all those statements are client-issued. I'm okay > with this text leaving out nitpicky details, but it should leave the > reader with a mental model that more or less matches reality. >
Then let’s use command message. It basically the moral equivalent to my (technically, query) parenthetical. David J.
