| From: | Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: misleading error message in ProcessUtilitySlow T_CreateStatsStmt |
| Date: | 2025-08-22 15:35:20 |
| Message-ID: | 202508221535.gixsh3lgyy2z@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2025-Aug-22, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not certain, but I think that our use of "relation" to mean
> "an object with a pg_class entry" is a Postgres-ism. I do know
> that the meaning of "a set of tuples" is widely used, as that's
> where the term "relational database" comes from. Maybe whoever
> wrote this was trying to get at that point? But this text is
> hardly clear about that.
Yeah, AFAIR I wrote it (or at least heavily edited the original to get
to that), and I was trying to convey exactly those two ideas. If you
want to propose improvements, they're very welcome.
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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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