Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.

On 3/29/18 9:51 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings Tom, all,
>
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>> JIT means Just In Time, which could be applied to many concepts and
>>>> has been in use for many years in a range of concepts. particularly in
>>>> manufacturing/logistics and project management.
>>
>>> I agree. In some email threads Andres has been using "JIT" as a verb,
>>> too, such as "JITing expressions" and such; that's a bit shocking, in a
>>> way. Honestly I don't care in a pgsql-hackers thread, I mean we all
>>> understand what it means, but in user-facing docs and things we should
>>> use complete words, "JIT-compile", "JIT-compilation", "JIT-compiling"
>>> and so on.
>>
>> I'd go a little further and drop "JIT" from user-facing documentation
>> altogether. Instead refer to the feature as "compilation of expressions"
>> or some such. JIT is just jargon. Plus, the timing of the compilation is
>> actually the least important property for our purpose.
>
> Agreed.

+1. Or simply "expression compilation".

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