On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki > <tsunakawa.ta...@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > > From: Amit Kapila [mailto:amit.kapil...@gmail.com] > >> At EnterpriseDB, we (me and some of my colleagues) are working from more > >> than a year on the new storage format in which only the latest version > of > >> the data is kept in main storage and the old versions are moved to an > undo > >> log. We call this new storage format "zheap". To be clear, this > proposal > >> is for PG-12. > > > > 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 :) ------ Alexander Korotkov Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com The Russian Postgres Company
