On 2020-Jul-21, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> - Added '(process)' to the two terms 'Autovacuum' and 'Stats Collector'
>
> - Removed link to himself in 'Logger (process)'
>
> - new term: Base Backup
Pushed. I was not courageous enough to include "base backup" in 13, so
that one's in master only, but th
On 19.06.20 19:10, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Thanks for these fixes! I included all of these.
On 2020-Jun-19, Erik Rijkers wrote:
And one thing that I am not sure of (but strikes me as a bit odd):
there are several cases of
'are enforced unique'. Should that not be
'are enforced to be unique' ?
Thanks for these fixes! I included all of these.
On 2020-Jun-19, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> And one thing that I am not sure of (but strikes me as a bit odd):
> there are several cases of
> 'are enforced unique'. Should that not be
> 'are enforced to be unique' ?
I included this change too; I am no
On 2020-06-19 01:51, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2020-Jun-16, Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:09:26PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I noticed one typo:
'aggregates functions' should be
'aggregate functions'
And one thing that I am not sure of (but strikes me as a bit odd):
ther
On 2020-Jun-16, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:09:26PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Thanks for the review. I merged all your suggestions. This one:
> >Most local objects belong to a specific
> > + schema in their
> > + containing database, such as
> > +
On 17.06.20 02:09, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2020-Jun-09, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
Can you agree to the following definitions? If no, we can alternatively
formulate for each of them: "Under discussion - currently not defined". My
proposals are inspired by chapter 2.2 Concepts: "Tables are grouped in
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:09:26PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
> index 25b03f3b37..e29b55e5ac 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
> @@ -395,15 +395,15 @@
>
> The base directo
On 2020-Jun-09, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> Can you agree to the following definitions? If no, we can alternatively
> formulate for each of them: "Under discussion - currently not defined". My
> proposals are inspired by chapter 2.2 Concepts: "Tables are grouped into
> databases, and a collection of dat
On 17.05.20 17:28, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I think the terms under discussion are just
* cluster
* instance
* server
Despite the short period of its existence the glossary achieved some
importance, see:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b8e12875ebec9e6d3107df5fa1129e1e%40postgrespro.ru
.
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 13:17 +0200, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> > FWIW, I feel somewhat like Alvaro on that point; I use those terms
> > synonymously,
> > perhaps distinguishing between a "started cluster" and a "stopped cluster".
> > After all, "cluster" refers to "a cluster of databases", which are the
On 19.05.20 08:17, Laurenz Albe wrote:
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:08 +0200, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
cluster/instance: PG (mainly) consists of a group of processes that commonly
act on shared buffers. The processes are very closely related to each other
and with the buffers. They exist altogether or no
On 2020-05-19 08:17, Laurenz Albe wrote:
The term "cluster" is unfortunate, because to most people it suggests a group of
machines, so the term "instance" is better, but that ship has sailed long ago.
I don't see what would stop us from renaming some things, with some care.
--
Peter Eisentraut
I think there needs to be a careful analysis of the language and a formal
effort to stabilise it for the future.
In the context of, say, an Oracle T series, which is partitioned into
multiple domains (virtual machines) in it, each
of these has multiple CPUs, and can run an instance of the OS which
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:08 +0200, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> cluster/instance: PG (mainly) consists of a group of processes that commonly
> act on shared buffers. The processes are very closely related to each other
> and with the buffers. They exist altogether or not at all. They use a common
> initia
On 17.05.20 17:28, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2020-May-17, Erik Rijkers wrote:
On 2020-05-17 08:51, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I don't think that's the general understanding of those terms. For all
I know, they*are* synonyms, and there's no specific term for "the
fluctuating objects" as you call th
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