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Re: Add A Glossary

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-05-15T00:00:17Z
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Thanks everybody.  I have compiled together all the suggestions and the
result is in the attached patch.  Some of it is of my own devising.

* I changed "instance", and made "cluster" be mostly a synonym of that.

* I removed "global SQL object" and made "SQL object" explain it.

* Added definitions for ACID, sequence, bloat, fork, FSM, VM, data page,
  transaction ID, epoch.

* Changed "a SQL" to "an sql" everywhere.

* Sorted alphabetically.

* Removed caps in term names.

I think I should get this pushed, and if there are further suggestions,
they're welcome.

Dim Fontaine and others suggested a number of terms that could be
included; see https://twitter.com/alvherre/status/1246192786287865856

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Glossary: Add term "base backup"

  2. Minor glossary tweaks

  3. Adjust some glossary terms

  4. Fix more typos and grammar problems in the glossary

  5. Review of the glossary

  6. Add a glossary to the documentation