Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you going to change "relation" to "table"? In most cases that is > the intended meaning. ISTM in some other cases it refers to anything > that can appear in pg_class, but I'm not 100% sure.
Quite a lot of the code considers "relation" to mean "anything that has a pg_class entry", which is a definition that's gotten fuzzier and fuzzier as we've thrown more stuff into pg_class. (Standalone composite types, for example, hardly qualify as a relation by anyone's understanding of the term. But they have pg_class entries now.) I don't mind rewording error messages to say "table" when in fact they could only be referring to plain tables. But let's not just move the fuzziness over from "relation" to "table". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])