| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Elaine Lindelef <eel(at)cognitivity(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What is a tuple? |
| Date: | 2002-06-26 02:53:58 |
| Message-ID: | 20020626125358.A6994@svana.org |
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:40:03PM -0700, Elaine Lindelef wrote:
> My apologies for the stupid question, but before I started using
> postgres I never came across the word "tuple" quite in this context
> before. I know a "tuple" as "a data object containing two or more
> components" ... but I'm not sure of its precise meaning in the
> postgres universe. Is a tuple a row, a field value, a field value
> paired with its datatype, what? If someone asks me the size of my
> largest tuple, how do I calculate it? It seems to be related deeply
> to the structure of postgres somehow.
A tuple is a row. Isn't this in the glossary somewhere?
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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