Re: Add A Glossary

From: Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: Add A Glossary
Date: 2020-04-12 07:36:50
Message-ID: a5462ee5-bb9c-18b4-5a74-cc519c37283c@purtz.de
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On 11.04.20 21:47, Corey Huinker wrote:
>
>
> Term 'relation': A sequence is internally a table with one row -
> right?
> Shall we extend the list of concrete relations by 'sequence'? Or
> is this
> not necessary because 'table' is already there?
>
>
> I wrote one for sequence, it was a bit math-y for Alvaro's taste, so
> we're going to try again.
>
This seems to be a misunderstanding. My question was whether we shall
extend the definition of Relation to: "... Tables, views, foreign
tables, materialized views, indexes, and *sequences* are all relations."

Kind regards, Jürgen

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