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.
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