| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
|---|---|
| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. |
| Date: | 2018-03-29 19:35:17 |
| Message-ID: | CAH2-Wzkcw_PDpYT2nNTV8hhKAb9WACBX0g2fDT-MWhvzU7zL_w@mail.gmail.com |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-committers pgsql-hackers |
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> This technique has bene called JIT since about 1983, and is well-known
> under that name, mostly because of Java. Calling it some made-up name
> we create ourselves is not going to make this more comprehensible to
> users.
+1. You make a good point about Java. Furthermore, when people talk
about just in time compilation in database systems, which is far from
a novel thing, they generally use the word JIT.
Why confuse things?
--
Peter Geoghegan
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | David Steele | 2018-03-29 19:38:30 | Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. |
| Previous Message | David G. Johnston | 2018-03-29 19:32:24 | Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. |
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Isaac Morland | 2018-03-29 19:36:11 | Re: Flexible permissions for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW |
| Previous Message | Robert Haas | 2018-03-29 19:34:51 | Re: Cast jsonb to numeric, int, float, bool |