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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] T-O-A-S-T meaning
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Msg-id 199912210210.VAA09407@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to T-O-A-S-T meaning  (wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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> Sorry, can't resist :-)
> 
>     Any  time  I  see  such  a  name for a piece of software, I'm
>     trying to figure out what the single characters  could  stand
>     for.  Thus I'm looking for a good interpretation of TOAST. So
>     far I have
> 
>         Tuple
>         Outgrown
>         Attribute
>         Storage
>         Technique
   Tuple Overflow Attribute Storage Technique

I thought "slicer" would be more natural.


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