Re: EXPLAIN BUFFERS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: EXPLAIN BUFFERS
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Msg-id 603c8f070912100753o61722638y92671d099d8a3a00@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: EXPLAIN BUFFERS  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: EXPLAIN BUFFERS  (Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> I don't think IO is a terrible name for an option but I like BUFFERS
>> better.  I don't think the BUFFERS/BLOCKS confusion is too bad, but
>> perhaps we could use BUFFERS in both places.
>
> I don't know how "blocks" got into here in the first place--this concept is
> "buffers" just about everywhere else already, right?

I think we have some places already in the system where we bounce back
and forth between those terms.  I expect that's the reason.

...Robert


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