On 2025-Aug-21, Kirill Reshke wrote: > I wouldn’t say this is misleading, but " a single relation" is indeed > not precise enough. IMO we need a more precise term to distinguish > regular relation and table func.
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?) Maybe in the "For example" clause we can also mention table functions. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
