Postgres Insider Terminology

Nice guide about the words/terminology used in Postgres

When I first started going to Postgres conferences and listening to talks by Postgres core developers I suddenly found myself at sea. What were these strange words and phrases they were using?

It turns out that a lot of them are taken from the Postgres code base, which in turn naturally uses them because they are part of Codd’s relational model, the theoretical information architecture that underpins all relational databases.

Here’s an unofficial, incomplete glossary of weird terms that come out of developers mouths when talking about Postgres.