[pgpool-hackers: 3801] Re: Proposal: language cleanup in Pgpool-II

[Tatsuo Ishii]

Hi Umar,

Now that we are getting closer to release Pgpool-II 4.2, I would like
to know if you wish to bring your work into 4.2 or not. If you wish,
can you please tell us the time line for the patch?

> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:33 PM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>> > Hi Hackers,
>> > Recently PG community did a language clean up ( to make it more
>> inclusive )
>> > for Server, including docs and code (see here
>> > <
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue@alap3.anarazel.de
>> >).
>> > Most changes were related to renaming "slave" and "master" terminologies.
>> > Do we have any plans to make such changes to make pgpool consistent with
>> > Server as well as in general Pgpool specific things ?
>> > If we do have a plan, it would need multiple patches as it would affect
>> > docs, code and configuration and samples.
>> > Let me know suggestions and thoughts and I can work on this.
>>
>> It seems the discussion is still on going? I mean it has not been
>> committed yet?
>>
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue%40alap3.anarazel.de
>>
>> Discussion is going on for two pending point which are not part of patches
> ( postmaster & master branch) and one WIP patch(multi-master), rest of the
> 7 patches for that thread are committed.
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=229f8c219f8fffacc253eca6023eab10a16eb009
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=5e7bbb528638c0f6d585bab107ec7a19e3a39deb
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=e07633646a22734e85d7fc58a66855f747128e6b
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=9e101cf60612f4be4f855d7393531900c2986a55
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=09dfd430118f1fadf52a782db5ee161b1eb16337
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=7c89f8a5b810d10dae300ec58ea7d70024e9123e
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=a9a4a7ad565b136cbee735d4bb505d98d06da522
> 
> 
>> The topic has not been discussed yet in pgpool-hackers, but I
>> personally think we need to do something soon or later anyway. My
>> concern is that that might require user-visible changes like:
>>
>> master
>> slave
>> white_function_list
>> black_function_list
>> black_query_pattern_list
>> white_memqcache_table_list
>> black_memqcache_table_list
>> follow_master_command
>> relcache_query_target = master
>> [maybe more...]
>>
>> Is it possible for you to come with a proposal for this so that pgpool
>> hackers could start discussion?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
>> Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
> 
> 
> Sure, I will create proposal for different sections and patches to discuss
> it further.
> 
> Thanks
> Umar Hayat