Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:52:56AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > BTW, I'm not all that thrilled with the "deserialized object" terminology.
> > I found myself repeatedly tripping up on which form was serialized and
> > which de-.  If anyone's got a better naming idea I'm willing to adopt it.
> 
> My first thought is that we should form some kind of TOAST-like
> backronym, like Serialization Avoidance Loading and Access Device
> (SALAD) or Break-up, Read, Edit, Assemble, and Deposit (BREAD).  I
> don't think there is anything per se wrong with the terms
> serialization and deserialization; indeed, I used the same ones in the
> parallel-mode stuff.  But they are fairly general terms, so it might
> be nice to have something more specific that applies just to this
> particular usage.

The words that sprung to mind for me were: packed/unpacked.

Have a nice day,
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