Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>> When I used the word "cache" here, I was thinking more of this
>> English language definition:
>>
>>   a :  a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving
>>        provisions or implements
>>   b :  a secure place of storage
>>
>> The intent being to emphasize that there is not one public
>> "registry" of such objects, but context-specific collections where
>> references are tucked away when they become available for later use
>> in the only the appropriate context.

> How about "stash"?  According to my reading of Merriam-Webster's
> definition, "stash" mostly appears to be the thing that is stored
> (hidden), rather than the place it's stored in, but one of the
> definitions is "hiding place", and "cache" is listed as a synonym.

"Stash" seems better that "cache" or "registry", especially since
many programmers these days seem to associate "cache" with
pass-through proxy techniques.  I first became familiar with the
term "cache" while reading Jack London, and tend to retain some
association with the more general definition.  Clearly I am in the
minority on that here.

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