Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.
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Msg-id 13592.1522331090@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@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.

            regards, tom lane


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