Dear Peter, Thanks for giving your idea!
> > Subscriber has a different meaning of subscription. Subscription is an SQL > > object. Subscriber is the server (node in replication terminology) where the > > subscription resides. Having said that pg_createsubscriber doesn't seem > > a bad > > name because you are creating a new subscriber. (Indeed, you are > > transforming / > > converting but "create" seems closer and users can infer that it is a > > tool to > > build a new logical replica. > > That makes sense. > > (Also, the problem with "convert" etc. is that "convertsubscriber" would > imply that you are converting an existing subscriber to something else. > It would need to be something like "convertbackup" then, which doesn't > seem helpful.) > > > I think "convert" and "transform" fit for this case. However, "create", > > "convert" and "transform" have 6, 7 and 9 characters, respectively. I > > suggest > > that we avoid long names (subscriber already has 10 characters). My > > preference > > is pg_createsubscriber. > > That seems best to me. Just FYI - I'm ok to change the name to pg_createsubscriber. Best Regards, Hayato Kuroda FUJITSU LIMITED
