On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 16:59, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> He didn't
> add a mailing list reference, but this is easy to find at
> https://postgr.es/m/20160720180706.GF24559@momjian.us
> I lean towards the view that he was using the literal program name as a
> verb, rather than trying to decline a verb normally.
I go with that, although I think it's confusing to not use the full
app name. If I were discussing a block of data that had been passed to
a "rewind" function, I might well put "this data has been rewind()ed"
(or just rewinded). But if I were discussing the concept itself, I
would say rewound.
eg In the example given, I would accept "and then
<application>pg_rewind</application>ed to become a standby".
Although I would probably have reworded it to use "and then
<application>pg_rewind</application> run again to set it to standby"
or something similar, because the "ed" form really does look odd in
documentation.
I don't think using "rewound" instead is explicit enough in this instance.
But that's just me. Feel free to ignore.
Geoff