Re: What does RIR as in fireRIRrules stand for?

On 2015-08-27 15:13:52 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> I searched the current code, all diffs to the current code, and the
> mailing list, but still haven't got an actual clue what RIR is supposed
> to stand for. There's a few things that come to mind (Rewrite Instead
> Rule?), but none of them seem to make too much sense.

Looking over the original submission it seems to actually stand for
retrieve-instead-retrieve (as somebody on IRC guessed). Doesn't seem to
make much sense to me.

The explanation seems to have been removed way back, in f93b6974 .

Greetings,

Andres Freund