From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Zedstore - compressed in-core columnar storage
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:08:11 +0300
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On 09/04/2019 23:24, Ashwin Agrawal wrote:
> BTW, can I express a small measure of disappointment that the name for
> the thing under discussion on this thread chose to be called
> "zedstore"? That seems to invite confusion with "zheap", especially
> in parts of the world where the last letter of the alphabet is
> pronounced "zed," where people are going to say zed-heap and
> zed-store. Brr.
>
> Surprised its felt this thread would initiate the invitation to
> confusion. Based on past internal and meetup discussions for few quite
> sometime now, the confusion already exists for zheap pronunciation
> because of the reason mentioned, as last letter is not pronounced
> universally same. Hence we explicitly called it zedstore to learn from
> and make the pronunciation world wide universal for new thing atleast.
Yeah, you can blame me for the name. It's a pun on zheap. I'm hoping we
come up with a better name before this matures; I'm thinking it could be
just "column store" or something like that in the end, but it's good to
have a more unique name during development.
- Heikki
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