Re: zheap: a new storage format for PostgreSQL

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:35 PM, Alexander Korotkov
<a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki
>> <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> > Wonderful!  BTW, what "z" stand for?  Ultimate?
>>
>> There is no special meaning to 'z'.  We have discussed quite a few
>> names (like newheap, nheap, zheap and some more on those lines), but
>> zheap sounds better.  IIRC, one among Robert or Thomas has come up
>> with this name.
>
> I would propose "zero-bloat heap" disambiguation of zheap.  Seems like fair
> enough explanation for me without need to rename :)

Nice.

A weird idea I had is that it adds a Z dimension to your tables.
That's a bit... far fetched, I admit.

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Thomas Munro
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