Re: Rewriting Free Space Map

From: "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rewriting Free Space Map
Date: 2008-03-17 19:34:42
Message-ID: 758d5e7f0803171234m76678d52m61aa79ea84abee84@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I'm not wedded to "forks", that's just the name that was used in the
> only previous example I've seen. Classic Mac had a "resource fork"
> and a "data fork" within each file.
>
> Don't think I like "maps" though, as (a) that prejudges what the
> alternate forks might be used for, and (b) the name fails to be
> inclusive of the data fork. Other suggestions anyone?

Shadow? As each err, fork trails each relfilenode? (Or perhaps "shade").

Hints? As something more generic than "map"?

Regards,
Dawid

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