Re: "supplementary storage table"?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue may 13 11:08:23 -0400 2010:
>> Okay, who decided $SUBJECT was a good locution for "toast table"?
>> I find two or three usages of that in the CREATE/ALTER TABLE reference
>> pages, without definition.  Everywhere else it's "toast table".
>> We do not need people deciding to invent their own terminology for
>> the docs.

> I think I used it somewhere, assuming the original wording I saw already
> on the docs was accepted terminology.

Given that we've institutionalized "toast" to the point of using it in
parameter names, I think using some other terminology is pretty silly.

            regards, tom lane