Within our documentation and related publications like presentations, books, or training materials people do not use a consistent wording concerning basic components or features of PostgreSQL. Different terms rumours around for the same objective which is a confusing situation for every beginner.

Therefore I suggest an additional chapter "Terms" after "Acronyms" to establish exact definitions of all our basic terms. In the appendix you find a first proposal. It reflects my understanding of the terms, my personal favourites for deprecated terms, and in some cases new definitions. If the community affirms the necessity of such a chapter, we surely will have a lot of discussions about the range of terms and their meaning. Therefore I actually use an easy editable format. After we have defined this chapter, the documentation must be reviewed (over time) to use exactly this notation.

Kind regards

Jürgen Purtz


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