Re: Rewriting Free Space Map - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dawid Kuroczko
Subject Re: Rewriting Free Space Map
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Msg-id 758d5e7f0803171234m76678d52m61aa79ea84abee84@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Rewriting Free Space Map  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>  I'm not wedded to "forks", that's just the name that was used in the
>  only previous example I've seen.  Classic Mac had a "resource fork"
>  and a "data fork" within each file.
>
>  Don't think I like "maps" though, as (a) that prejudges what the
>  alternate forks might be used for, and (b) the name fails to be
>  inclusive of the data fork.  Other suggestions anyone?

Shadow?  As each err, fork trails each relfilenode? (Or perhaps "shade").

Hints?  As something more generic than "map"?
  Regards,    Dawid


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