Re: TOAST versus toast

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 19:38, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:


> But, because of all the differing views expressed here I'm not sure
> now how to proceed. Any ideas?
>

May I suggest that you start with a patch to Appendix J, section 6 to
codify whatever is decided?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/docguide-style.html

This is made a bit awkward because right now the style guide only has one
subsection, relating to reference page organization. So essentially I'm
suggesting an entirely new subsection which could eventually cover things
like capitalization and which grammatical forms to prefer, and that you
start with the toast/TOAST rules. Once you have at least one rule agreed
and added to the style guide, then a patch to revise existing examples of
contrary usage would be in my opinion a more clear win than it is now.

The above makes more sense to me if there are other questions of this
general nature that could benefit from an explicit mention in a style
guide, even if this patch wouldn't do that. If this is the only question
like this, then it looks a bit weird to add a whole section just for it.
But I lean towards the idea that over time there might be a number of
decisions of this nature that ought to be made and followed consistently.