On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@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.
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