Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2015-08-27 11:12:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think an explanation in fireRIRrules' header comment would be fine.
> I was thinking of adding it to the file's header like
> * NOTES
> * Some of the terms used in this file are of historic nature: "retrieve"
> * was the PostQUEL keyword for what today is SELECT. "RIR" stands for
> * "Retrieve-Instead-Retrieve", that is an ON SELECT INSTEAD rule (which
> * has to be unconditional and where only one rule can exist on each
> * relation).
> since both retrieve and RIR are used in a bunch of places.
Seems reasonable. Maybe worth writing out the modern spelling a bit
further, "an ON SELECT DO INSTEAD SELECT rule", to make the parallel
to Retrieve-Instead-Retrieve perfectly clear.
regards, tom lane
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