Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Ok, but now next question -- should we just change the user visible
> output to oldestCommitXID/newestCommitXID, or should we change the
> variable name everywhere it appears in source as well? Looks like each
> one appears about 25-30 times scattered across 9 or 10 files. Since they
> are new in 9.5, if we're going to change them, I'd think we ought to do
> it now or never.
The name is just as misleading at the source-code level, maybe more so
since they're all just numbers in C. +1 for changing it everywhere
before somebody makes a mistake based on the incorrect names.
regards, tom lane