From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory |
Date: | 2015-02-14 17:24:57 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaYZxCZ2bxkji=6BcwPWQmVZF8rQ0_es2T94tmzua=3Zg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:52:56AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> BTW, I'm not all that thrilled with the "deserialized object" terminology.
>>>> I found myself repeatedly tripping up on which form was serialized and
>>>> which de-. If anyone's got a better naming idea I'm willing to adopt it.
>
>>> My first thought is that we should form some kind of TOAST-like
>>> backronym, like Serialization Avoidance Loading and Access Device
>>> (SALAD) or Break-up, Read, Edit, Assemble, and Deposit (BREAD). I
>>> don't think there is anything per se wrong with the terms
>>> serialization and deserialization; indeed, I used the same ones in the
>>> parallel-mode stuff. But they are fairly general terms, so it might
>>> be nice to have something more specific that applies just to this
>>> particular usage.
>
>> The words that sprung to mind for me were: packed/unpacked.
>
> Trouble is that we're already using "packed" with a specific connotation
> in that same area of the code, namely for short-header varlena values.
> (See pg_detoast_datum_packed() etc.) So I don't think this will work.
> But maybe a different adjective?
expanded?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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