From: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Abbreviation list |
Date: | 2007-10-19 20:29:37 |
Message-ID: | 471913B1.4050202@pinpointresearch.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)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".
>
Perhaps we should add "LO" but the documentation does refer to the term
BLOB though typically in the context of "The SQL standard defines a
different binary string type, called BLOB..." or in the list of reserved
words.
Cheers,
Steve
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