On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > > On 11.01.24 23:15, Euler Taveira wrote: > > A new tool called pg_subscriber can convert a physical replica into a > > logical replica. It runs on the target server and should be able to > > connect to the source server (publisher) and the target server (subscriber). > > Can we have a discussion on the name? > > I find the name pg_subscriber too general. > > The replication/backup/recovery tools in PostgreSQL are usually named > along the lines of "verb - object". (Otherwise, they would all be > called "pg_backup"??) Moreover, "pg_subscriber" also sounds like the > name of the program that runs the subscriber itself, like what the > walreceiver does now. > > Very early in this thread, someone mentioned the name > pg_create_subscriber, and of course there is pglogical_create_subscriber > as the historical predecessor. Something along those lines seems better > to me. Maybe there are other ideas. >
The other option could be pg_createsubscriber on the lines of pg_verifybackup and pg_combinebackup. Yet other options could be pg_buildsubscriber, pg_makesubscriber as 'build' or 'make' in the name sounds like we are doing some work to create the subscriber which I think is the case here. -- With Regards, Amit Kapila.
