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| author | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2015-08-28 16:24:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2015-08-28 16:27:58 +0200 |
| commit | c0f0d8097be17ae7f03fc79f622e9c95026b338a (patch) | |
| tree | 87cb6b1ea776613f34840dd276db4b25f6f913e2 /src | |
| parent | c86762a242b81395d5f72b106adfe371cd33c67e (diff) | |
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Clarify what some historic terms in rewriteHandler.c mean.
Discussion: 20150827131352.GF2435@awork2.anarazel.de
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diff --git a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c index 1734e48241a..5cf9cc7bccc 100644 --- a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c +++ b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c @@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ * IDENTIFICATION * src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c * + * 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 DO INSTEAD SELECT rule + * (which has to be unconditional and where only one rule can exist on each + * relation). + * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" |