Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpP2-0001ny-Aa for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:23:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpP0-0005UE-MP for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:23:38 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpP0-0005U7-GX for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:23:38 +0000 Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpOy-0006yt-5t for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:23:37 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpOv-0006aE-4n; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:23:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:23:33 -0400 From: Bruce Momjian To: Stephen Frost Cc: Peter Geoghegan , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: "stable storage" Message-ID: <20200831192333.GK13613@momjian.us> References: <20200817165222.GA31806@momjian.us> <20200821221202.GH13363@momjian.us> <20200822034444.GI29590@tamriel.snowman.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200822034444.GI29590@tamriel.snowman.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:44:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Peter Geoghegan (pg@bowt.ie) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:12 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Is "stable storage" the same as "durable storage"? Should we rename > > > > "stable storage" mentions to "durable storage"? > > > > > > I have developed the attached doc patch to change "stable storage" to > > > "durable storage". > > > > I agree that this is an improvement. The word "durable" is more > > descriptive than "stable". (The word "stable" might be more > > recognizable, but that in itself doesn't make the text any clearer.) > > +1. > > Thanks, Applied. -- Bruce Momjian https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee