Re: possible bug

On 2022-Oct-21, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Ravi Krishna <s_ravikrishna(at)aol(dot)com> wrote:
> >> on a diff note, is the word memoize inspired from Perl Module memoize
> >> which use to do the same thing.
>
> > It is a general functional programming concept - not sure on the history
> > but probably academic and thus Perl and others picked it up "from the
> > source".
>
> Looks to me like you suggested our use of the terminology:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKFQuwZQmCNyS_Vv2Jf3TNe7wRTiptWNs7xkgU%3DAEdqthkQe9A%40mail.gmail.com#bbcd739c97e28b17ef2e111be8cf214b

The word itself has been used in the PG lists before. For example,
Greg Stark used it in 2008 when discussing WITH RECURSIVE
https://postgr.es/m/47C151F1.8050100@enterprisedb.com
There are a few other hits over the years.

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