From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amit(dot)khandekar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers |
Date: | 2016-11-21 17:29:41 |
Message-ID: | 20161121172941.qv5rtq7d57izy7yh@alvherre.pgsql |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > Also, Tsrcache is strangely named: it's not exactly a cache, it's
> > more of a registry.
>
> When I used the word "cache" here, I was thinking more of this
> English language definition:
>
> a : a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving
> provisions or implements
> b : a secure place of storage
>
> The intent being to emphasize that there is not one public
> "registry" of such objects, but context-specific collections where
> references are tucked away when they become available for later use
> in the only the appropriate context. Eventually, when these are
> used for some of the less "eager" timings of materialized view
> maintenance, they may be set aside for relatively extended periods
> (i.e., minutes or maybe even hours) before being used. Neither
> "registry" nor "cache" seems quite right; maybe someone can think
> of a word with more accurate semantics.
How about "stash"? According to my reading of Merriam-Webster's
definition, "stash" mostly appears to be the thing that is stored
(hidden), rather than the place it's stored in, but one of the
definitions is "hiding place", and "cache" is listed as a synonym.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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