Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring
Date: 2011-11-15 18:55:14
Message-ID: CAFNqd5WR1+PZ1Nu7_Jz=zG5T5u+vTECss+uwBBrZyxOwUwvP9Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> "nondeletable" is surely terrible, since they may well have got into
> this state by being deleted.  "nonremovable" is better, but still not
> great.

Bit of brain storm, including looking over to terminology used for
garbage collection:
- stillreferenceable
- notyetremovable
- referenceable
- reachable

Perhaps those suggest some option that is a bit less horrible? I
think I like referenceable best, of those.
--
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question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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