Re: Add A Glossary

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:11 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> I gave this a look. I first reformatted it so I could read it; that's
> 0001. Second I changed all the long <link> items into <xref>s, which
>

Thanks! I didn't know about xrefs, that is a big improvement.

> are shorter and don't have to repeat the title of the refered to page.
> (Of course, this changes the link to be in the same style as every other
> link in our documentation; some people don't like it. But it's our
> style.)
>
> There are some mistakes. "Tupple" is most glaring one -- not just the
> typo but also the fact that it goes to sql-revoke. A few definitions
> we'll want to modify. Nothing too big. In general I like this work and
> I think we should have it in pg13.
>
> Please bikeshed the definition of your favorite term, and suggest what
> other terms to add. No pointing out of mere typos yet, please.
>

Jürgen mentioned off-list that the man page doesn't build. I was going to
look into that, but if anyone has more familiarity with that, I'm listening.

> I think we should have the terms Consistency, Isolation, Durability.
>

+1