Re: Error message inconsistency

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:22 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing to note is that there are places in code where we use
> 'table' instead of 'relation' for the same thing in the error messages
> as seen in the below places (the first one uses 'relation', the second
> one uses 'table') and the patch is using 'relation' which I think is
> fine.

We often use "relation" as a sort of a weasel-word when we don't know
the relkind; i.e. when we're complaining about something that might be
a view or index or foreign table or whatever. If we say "table," we
need to know that it is, precisely, a table.

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