On 3/29/18 9:51 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings Tom, all, > > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: >>> Simon Riggs wrote: >>>> JIT means Just In Time, which could be applied to many concepts and >>>> has been in use for many years in a range of concepts. particularly in >>>> manufacturing/logistics and project management. >> >>> I agree. In some email threads Andres has been using "JIT" as a verb, >>> too, such as "JITing expressions" and such; that's a bit shocking, in a >>> way. Honestly I don't care in a pgsql-hackers thread, I mean we all >>> understand what it means, but in user-facing docs and things we should >>> use complete words, "JIT-compile", "JIT-compilation", "JIT-compiling" >>> and so on. >> >> I'd go a little further and drop "JIT" from user-facing documentation >> altogether. Instead refer to the feature as "compilation of expressions" >> or some such. JIT is just jargon. Plus, the timing of the compilation is >> actually the least important property for our purpose. > > Agreed.
+1. Or simply "expression compilation". -- -David da...@pgmasters.net
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
