| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Fractal tree indexing |
| Date: | 2013-02-13 17:56:58 |
| Message-ID: | 511BD3EA.5040904@commandprompt.com |
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On 02/13/2013 09:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I'd call it out as a marketing name. I guess it's fractal in the sense that
>> all levels of the tree can hold "leaf tuples" in the buffers; the structure
>> looks the same no matter how deep you zoom, like a fractal.. But "Buffered"
>> would be more appropriate IMO.
>
> I hope for their sake there is more to it than that. It's hard to see
> how buffering can be patented.
Talk to Apple about that. It only needs to be worded correctly.
JD
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