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Understanding the Postgres Hackers Mailing List
Greg analyzed a year's worth of email exchanges on the Postgres hackers email list. He's got a primer on all the lingo and abbreviations used to help you follow along.
cfbot- an automated system that creates git threads based on the commitfest entries, and gathers the results of CI testing ( http://cfbot.cputube.org/) Coverity= an external tool used to try and detect problems with the code s/This/That/= someone is suggesting changing the text to replace "This" with "That" OOM= out of memory A slightly politer way to say IMO"IMHO, this is not a good direction" LGTM= looks good to me (especially in regards to a patch)"Did a quick check and still LGTM" PFA / PSA= please find attached / please see attached"PFA the small patch that implements this" AFAICT= as far as I can tell"AFAICT, this world target doesn't include the man target" OTOH= on the other hand"OTOH, maybe the current code is more readable" IIRC= if I recall correctly"IIRC, we have some similar issues in other hooks" AFAICS= as far as I can see"AFAICS, only assert-enabled LLVM builds crash" WIP= work in progress"Here's a new WIP version of the patch” ISTM= it seems to me"ISTM that the fix here is to not use a spinlock" AFAIK= as far as I know"AFAIK that guarantees it happens after" TBH= to be honest"TBH, I am wondering what is the purpose of this sentence" FYI= for your information"FYI, I also ran the patch" WFM= works for me"Both suggestions WFM" IMV= in my view"You really need diagrams for something like this IMV" IOW= in other words"IOW, search path is a bandaid for this kind of thing” POV= point of view"From my POV the idea seems reasonable" OP= original poster (the person who started the email thread)"The OP suggests archiving the timeline history file" AFAIU= as far as I understand"AFAIU currently we do not add Memoize nodes" YMMV= your mileage may vary"I find it easy to read if the GUC parameters are quoted, but YMMV" FTR= for the record. Basically, a configuration variable LSN= log sequence number, a specific address in the WAL stream API= application programming interface OID= object identifier TOAST= the oversized attribute storage technique FSM= free space map SAOP= scalar array operator (note: not a misspelling of SOAP!)
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