On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@kurilemu.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
