> The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in the
> documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of
> dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the
> vacuum commands output (n dead tuples cannot be removed yet). Given this
> patch came from userland, istm people are comfortable enough with this
> terminology there is no need to change it.

+1

>
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in the
> > documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of
> > dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the
> > vacuum commands output (n dead tuples cannot be removed yet). Given this
> > patch came from userland, istm people are comfortable enough with this
> > terminology there is no need to change it.
>
> +1

OK. I will adjust any places that still use expired, and put the patch
into the queue.

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