Re: slotname vs slot_name

Robert Haas wrote:

> > BTW, the stuff that we have in pg_llog are not really logs at all, so
> > pg_llog was always a misnomer.
> 
> Also true.
> 
> For my part, I'd strongly prefer a name based on the term "logical
> decoding".  This feature has lots of names (change-set extraction,
> logical replication, blah blah) and I worked pretty hard to make sure
> that the core patch as committed referred to it in just one way
> (logical decoding) everywhere.  I'd rather not call this pg_lcse or
> pg_lcset or something like that because now we're introducing other
> terminology that's not used elsewhere.  I'll defer to the group on
> whether it should be called pg_logical or pg_logicaldecoding or
> pg_logical_decoding or pg_ldecoding or pg_logdec or
> pg_lOgIcAl___DECODing, but it should be something somehow based on
> that term.

There is no reason not to use long names, so I think pg_logical_decoding
is fine.

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