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