Re: Need clarification on "field"

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: boopalan_sjb(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need clarification on "field"
Date: 2024-06-05 10:15:45
Message-ID: e81a46253611eb9365ad979b21e83d2156b0121e.camel@cybertec.at
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On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 19:54 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Under page "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html", below
> limitations are mentioned:
>
> field size - 1 GB
> identifier length - 63 bytes
>
> I understand "identifier" as the name we provide for tables, columns etc.
>
> By the way, what is "field" in Postgresql? I don't see any official
> page/explanation for this.

The PostgreSQL term would be "attribute". Perhaps we should use that.
Alternatively, what about "column value"? It is perhaps not accurate,
because a Datum need not be stored in a column, but it might be readily
understandable.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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