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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "supplementary storage table"?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:09:34 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.

Given that we've institutionalized "toast" to the point of using it in
parameter names, I think using some other terminology is pretty silly.

			regards, tom lane

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