Re: Hash Indexes

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm.  I think page or block is a concept of database systems and
>> buckets is a general concept used in hashing technology.  I think the
>> difference is that there are primary buckets and overflow buckets. I
>> have checked how they are referred in one of the wiki pages [1],
>> search for overflow on that wiki page. Now, I think we shouldn't be
>> inconsistent in using them. I will change to make it same if I find
>> any inconsistency based on what you or other people think is the
>> better way to refer overflow space.
>
> In the existing source code, the terminology 'overflow page' is
> clearly preferred to 'overflow bucket'.
>

Okay, point taken.  Will update it in next version of patch.

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Amit Kapila.
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