On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:48:35PM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote:
> On 28/01/14 16:33, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >On 01/27/2014 10:24 PM, Sawada Masahiko wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>Attached patch fixes the typo which is in
> >>"src/backend/command/cluster.c".
> >
> >Are you sure that's a typo? "iff" is usually short hand for "if
> >and only if".
> >
> >cheers
> >
> >andrew
> >
> >
> Certainly, that is how I would interpret it.
> 
> I came across that abbreviation in a first years Maths course
> "Principles of Mathematics" in 1968 at the University of Auckland..

By my rough count (ack -l '\biff\b' |wc -l), it's used to mean
equivalence 81 times in the source tree.  Should we have a glossary of
such terms?

Cheers,
David.
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