Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB993633235 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:44:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04479-04 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 15:44:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com (host-215.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.215]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1956632450 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:44:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD117348034; Thu, 13 May 2010 08:44:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at commandprompt.com Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spinlock.commandprompt.com.commandprompt.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id n-OYKdkt2xr9; Thu, 13 May 2010 08:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (190-95-31-142.bk17-dsl.surnet.cl [190.95.31.142]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3203D348002; Thu, 13 May 2010 08:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 191776E44F; Thu, 13 May 2010 11:44:20 -0400 (CLT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: pgsql-docs Subject: Re: "supplementary storage table"? From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane In-reply-to: <553.1273763303@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <553.1273763303@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:44:20 -0400 Message-Id: <1273765415-sup-7831@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Sup/0.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/17 X-Sequence-Number: 5514 Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue may 13 11:08:23 -0400 2010: > Okay, who decided $SUBJECT was a good locution for "toast table"? > I find two or three usages of that in the CREATE/ALTER TABLE reference > pages, without definition. Everywhere else it's "toast table". > We do not need people deciding to invent their own terminology for > the docs. I think I used it somewhere, assuming the original wording I saw already on the docs was accepted terminology. --