Re: Add A Glossary

On 2020-Apr-02, Corey Huinker wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:44 AM Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de> wrote:
>
> > +1 and many thanks to Alvaros edits.
> >
> >
> I did some of the grunt work Alvaro alluded to in v6, and the results are
> attached and they build, which means there are no invalid links.

Thank you! I had been working on some other changes myself, and merged
most of your changes. I give you v8.

> * renamed id glossary-temporary-tables to glossary-temporary-table

Good.

> * temporarily re-added an id for glossary-row as we have many references to
> that. unsure if we should use the term Tuple in all those places or say Row
> while linking to glossary-tuple, or something else

I changed these to link to glossary-tuple; that entry already explains
these two other terms, so this seems acceptable.

> * temporarily re-added an id for glossary-segment, glossary-wal-segment,
> glossary-analytic-function, as those were also referenced and will need
> similar decisions made

Ditto.

> * added a stub entry for glossary-unique-index, unsure if it should have a
> definition on it's own, or we split it into unique and index.

I changed Unique Index into Unique Constraint, which is supposed to be
the overarching concept. Used that in the definition of primary key.

> * I noticed several cases where a glossterm is used twice in a definition,
> but didn't de-term them

Did that for most I found, but I expect that some remain.

> * I'm curious about how we should tag a term when using it in its own
> definition. same as anywhere else?

I think we should not tag those.

I fixed the definition of global object as mentioned previously. Also
added "client", made "connection" have less importance compared to
"session", and removed "window frame" (made "window function" refer to
"partition" instead). If you (or anybody) have suggestions for the
definition of "client" and "session", I'm all ears.

I'm quite liking the result of this now. Thanks for all your efforts.

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