Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 7/5/21 11:46 PM, Bharath Rupireddy wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:43 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> I like "debug_flush_caches" --- it's short and accurate.
>> Do we always flush the cache entries into the disk? Sometimes we just >> invalidate the cache entries in the registered invalidation callbacks, >> right? Since we already use the term "clobber" in the user visible >> config option --clobber-cache, isn't it consistent to use >> debug_clobber_caches? > I think 'flush' here means simply 'discard'. Maybe that would be a > better word to use. "Discard" could be misinterpreted too, no doubt. None of these words have one single exact meaning, so I have only limited patience for this sort of argumentation. (As for initdb's "--clobber-cache", I'm assuming we'd rename that to match whatever we come up with here. It is what it is now only because I was unwilling to call it "--use-debug-invalidate-system-caches-always".) regards, tom lane