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Re: Add A Glossary

Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>

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From: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>, Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-03-24T19:27:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
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> > > +      Records</glossterm> to the file system and creates a special
> >
> > Does the chckpointer actually write WAL ?
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> Yes.
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> > An FK doesn't require the values in its table to be unique, right ?
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> I believe it does require that the values are unique.
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> > I think there's some confusion.  Constraints are not objects, right ?
>
> I think constraints are definitely objects. They have names and you
> can, for example, COMMENT on them.
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> > Do we use shared_buffers for WAL ?
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> No.
>
> (I have not reviewed the patch; these are just a few comments on your
> comments.)
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>
I'm going to be coalescing the feedback into an updated patch very soon
(tonight/tomorrow), so please keep the feedback on the text/wording coming
until then.
If anyone has a first attempt at all the ACID definitions, I'd love to see
those as well.

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