Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-15T18:55:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote: > "nondeletable" is surely terrible, since they may well have got into > this state by being deleted. "nonremovable" is better, but still not > great. Bit of brain storm, including looking over to terminology used for garbage collection: - stillreferenceable - notyetremovable - referenceable - reachable Perhaps those suggest some option that is a bit less horrible? I think I like referenceable best, of those. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"