From c0f0d8097be17ae7f03fc79f622e9c95026b338a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Freund Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:24:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify what some historic terms in rewriteHandler.c mean. Discussion: 20150827131352.GF2435@awork2.anarazel.de --- src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c index 1734e48241..5cf9cc7bcc 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"