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. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Puedes vivir sólo una vez, pero si lo haces bien, una vez es suficiente"
