| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "supplementary storage table"? |
| Date: | 2010-05-13 16:09:34 |
| Message-ID: | 16234.1273766974@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue may 13 11:08:23 -0400 2010:
>> Okay, who decided $SUBJECT was a good locution for "toast table"?
>> I find two or three usages of that in the CREATE/ALTER TABLE reference
>> pages, without definition. Everywhere else it's "toast table".
>> We do not need people deciding to invent their own terminology for
>> the docs.
> I think I used it somewhere, assuming the original wording I saw already
> on the docs was accepted terminology.
Given that we've institutionalized "toast" to the point of using it in
parameter names, I think using some other terminology is pretty silly.
regards, tom lane
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