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-rw-r--r--src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
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"