Re: Heap page diagnostic functions

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>>> Any suggestions? pgdiagnostics?
>>>
>>>> Yes, I like "diagnostics", or "internals".  I just think forensics 
>>>> isn't
>>>> going to be understood by the average native English speaker, let alone
>>>> non-English speakers.
>>>
>>> "diagnostics" is a two-dollar word also.  It might be a bit more widely
>>> known than "forensics", but it's longer and harder to spell.  Not that
>>> I have any great suggestions to make.  Maybe "pgtestfuncs"?
>>
>> I thought about pgdebugfuncs myself at first. But that's so generic 
>> and pgtestfuncs even more so. Diagnostics is pretty good, that word is 
>> in use in other languages as well as a medical term, so it's meaning 
>> would be clear to a lot of people even if they've never encountered 
>> the English word before.
>>
>> Besides, the audience for these functions is quite narrow: people 
>> working on PostgreSQL internals, so I don't think the language issue 
>> matters that much.
> 
> I did not find "forensics" in translator and It mentions in Oxford 
> vocabulary but explanation is not clear for me. I agree with Bruce It is 
> not good name. What about short form of diagnostic "diag"?

Webster lists "scientific analysis of physical evidence (as from a crime 
scene)" as one meaning: http://www.webster.com/dictionary/forensics.

I'm going to go with pgdiagnostics. We could short it to just "pgdiag", 
but that feels too short :). We could make it "pgdiagfuncs", but that's 
not much shorter than pgdiagnostics.

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