"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Ravi Krishna <s_ravikrishna@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> on a diff note, is the word memoize inspired from Perl Module memoize >> which use to do the same thing. > It is a general functional programming concept - not sure on the history > but probably academic and thus Perl and others picked it up "from the > source". Looks to me like you suggested our use of the terminology: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKFQuwZQmCNyS_Vv2Jf3TNe7wRTiptWNs7xkgU%3DAEdqthkQe9A%40mail.gmail.com#bbcd739c97e28b17ef2e111be8cf214b regards, tom lane
