Re: misleading error message in ProcessUtilitySlow T_CreateStatsStmt - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@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