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>First, TOAST stands for The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique, probably the best acronym in the history of Computer Science. Actually, that price IMHO goe
by pilif 11y ago
>First, TOAST stands for The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique, probably the best acronym in the history of Computer Science.
Actually, that price IMHO goes to GIN (Generalized Inverted Index) which I actually believed to be a coincidence until the people behind Postgres' GIN index announced their new VODKA index format
- dexterdog 11y agoUm, how about TWAIN?
- dspillett 11y agoTWAIN isn't actually an acronym - it comes from "and never the twain shall meet", replacing east and west in that prose with scanners, printers and other digital image sources/sinks, representing the difficulty people had getting examples of such technology to cooperate with each other.
- dexterdog 11y agoTIL - thank you.