Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5D7632FEB for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 13:09:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82224-06 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 16:09:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEB36331C0 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 13:09:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o4DG9YtO016235; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:09:35 -0400 (EDT) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: pgsql-docs Subject: Re: "supplementary storage table"? In-reply-to: <1273765415-sup-7831@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <553.1273763303@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1273765415-sup-7831@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Thu, 13 May 2010 11:44:20 -0400" Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:09:34 -0400 Message-ID: <16234.1273766974@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/18 X-Sequence-Number: 5515 Alvaro Herrera 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