Re: [TF-LIB] COALESCE is an unhelpful choice of name

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com> wrote:

> MELD? On the principle that it's a word that isn't likely to be used else
> where (unlike say 'merge').

A reason to not like GATHER is scatter-gather IO associations, though
these seem unlikely to be confusing.

MELD is good because it's shorter than GATHER. For my 2p, either is
better than COALESCE.

Cheers,
Kendall

Received on Friday, 13 November 2009 17:38:00 UTC