| From: | Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> |
| 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 14:19:49 |
| Message-ID: | CAMbWs4-L2n0RrZdyWU5mh=LDzW57FreF9KBoTzx3sU8zcREnhA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> wrote:
> I'm not sure. See the definition of relation in the glossary:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/glossary.html#GLOSSARY-RELATION
>
> The generic term for all objects in a database that have a name and a
> list of attributes defined in a specific order. Tables, sequences,
> views, foreign tables, materialized views, composite types, and
> indexes are all relations.
>
> More generically, a relation is a set of tuples; for example, the
> result of a query is also a relation.
>
> In PostgreSQL, Class is an archaic synonym for relation.
>
> (I wonder why this says "generically" rather than "generally". Is that
> word choice a mistake?)
"More generally" feels more natural to me than "more generically" in
this sentence, but I'm not a native English speaker, so I could be
wrong.
Thanks
Richard
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