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.
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