Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:36:41 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Abbreviation list
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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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