From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Abbreviation list
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:36:41 -0300
Message-ID: <20071019193641.GQ16000@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4718F552.5080503@pinpointresearch.com>
References: <200710190402.l9J42Wp11623@momjian.us>
<4718F552.5080503@pinpointresearch.com>
Steve Crawford wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
> >>> My vote is to add "Appendix I. Abbreviations".
> >> It seems more like FAQ material than something for the manual.
> >
> > I prefer the manual. I would think the list would be pretty long and
> > deal with lots of internals terms.
>
> My vote too. Just noticed I missed (probably one of many):
> BLOB - Binary Large Object
Do we use that term? Normally for us it's "large objects".
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