> The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in > the > documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of > dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the > vacuum commands output (n dead tuples cannot be removed yet). Given this > patch came from userland, istm people are comfortable enough with this > terminology there is no need to change it.
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