Re: Suggestions please: names for function cachability

From: Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
Subject: Re: Suggestions please: names for function cachability
Date: 2002-04-03 04:54:35
Message-ID: 20020402235435.6b3d5eb3.nconway@klamath.dyndns.org
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On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:39:35 -0500
"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Well, for one thing, we might want to change the name to the correct
> > spelling "cacheable".
>
> Is that correct?

Apparently, other people are confused as well:

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/august97/0431.html

FWIW, google has ~30,000 results for -eable, and ~8,000 results for
-able. A couple other software projects (notably Apache Jakarta)
use -eable.

My preference would be for -eable, but that's just on the basis of
"it looks right", which is hardly authoritative.

Cheers,

Neil

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Neil Conway <neilconway(at)rogers(dot)com>
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