Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> rancpine cui escribi:
>> What does "hash chains" mean?
> Each "hash chain" is a different, separate, independent hash struct.
It's pretty much equivalent to "hash bucket" --- this comment says chain
because it's focusing on the physical representation of the bucket as a
linked list, whereas "bucket" doesn't presume anything about how the
elements in the bucket are stored.
regards, tom lane