Re: Retronym: s/magnetic disk/main data/ - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Retronym: s/magnetic disk/main data/
Date
Msg-id 20190411180541.qgyftmosvylrtlzu@momjian.us
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In response to Retronym: s/magnetic disk/main data/  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Apr  4, 2019 at 05:49:36PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I propose that in v13 we redefine "MD" (from md.c) to mean "main data"
> (instead of "magnetic disk").  That's the standard storage layout for
> typical table and index AMs.  As opposed to the proposed undo and SLRU
> SMGRs that provide layouts specialised for different life cycles.

A bigger issue is that our documention often refers to "disk" as storage
when including SSD storage, which clearly have no disks.  They are
"solid state drives", not disks.

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