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		renewiltord on March 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A word used only by Postgres developers It's an old software thing! "Transparent to the user" means "without the user knowing". Strange, right? I prefer "hidden from" to "transparent to" but I definitely use the latter a lot and it's quite clearly wrong!

inimino on March 11, 2022 [–]

It's not wrong. Glass is transparent to you. It precisely means that you don't see it.

renewiltord on March 25, 2022 | [–]

You are right! Consider me convinced!

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