Greetings Tom, all, * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > Simon Riggs wrote: > >> JIT means Just In Time, which could be applied to many concepts and > >> has been in use for many years in a range of concepts. particularly in > >> manufacturing/logistics and project management. > > > I agree. In some email threads Andres has been using "JIT" as a verb, > > too, such as "JITing expressions" and such; that's a bit shocking, in a > > way. Honestly I don't care in a pgsql-hackers thread, I mean we all > > understand what it means, but in user-facing docs and things we should > > use complete words, "JIT-compile", "JIT-compilation", "JIT-compiling" > > and so on. > > I'd go a little further and drop "JIT" from user-facing documentation > altogether. Instead refer to the feature as "compilation of expressions" > or some such. JIT is just jargon. Plus, the timing of the compilation is > actually the least important property for our purpose.
Agreed. Thanks! Stephen
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