Re: Abbreviation list - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: Abbreviation list
Date
Msg-id 471913B1.4050202@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to Re: Abbreviation list  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Abbreviation list  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
>>>>> My vote is to add "Appendix I. Abbreviations".
>>>> It seems more like FAQ material than something for the manual.
>>> I prefer the manual.  I would think the list would be pretty long and
>>> deal with lots of internals terms.
>> My vote too. Just noticed I missed (probably one of many):
>> BLOB - Binary Large Object
>
> Do we use that term?  Normally for us it's "large objects".
>

Perhaps we should add "LO" but the documentation does refer to the term
BLOB though typically in the context of "The SQL standard defines a
different binary string type, called BLOB..." or in the list of reserved
words.

Cheers,
Steve

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