On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 06:10:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> writes:
>> On 2025-Aug-05, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> I noticed that this function has a "namspace" parameter. The attached
>>> patch adds the missing 'e'.
>
>> I have vague recollections of it being this way because of "namespace"
>> being a C++ keyword. (commit is 3a5b77371522, but I don't have energy
>> to look for the discussion right now.)
>
> Oh, duh -- if you try cpluspluscheck you'll find it's unhappy.
> I didn't locate the discussion of "namspace" either, but I did
> notice that de160e2c0 used "nameSpace" for the same purpose.
> Maybe we should standardize on that? It looks less like a typo
> than "namspace", for sure.
That explains it. I didn't find any past discussions about this particular
name, but commit de160e2 was being developed concurrently. I'll use
nameSpace instead.
--
nathan
