Re: Rewriting Free Space Map

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:23:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> >> Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> The idea that's becoming attractive to me while contemplating the
> >>> multiple-maps problem is that we should adopt something similar to
> >>> the old Mac OS idea of multiple "forks" in a relation.
> 
> > Can we call them "maps" or "metadata maps"? "forks" sounds weird.

Actually, I do like "forks", but to add a little bit diversity:

facets? aspects?

FWIW, the idea of mapping a relation to a directory quite compelling.

Regards
- -- tomás
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