From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: boopalan_sjb@yahoo.co.in
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need clarification on "field"
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 10:07:10 -0400
Message-ID: <ZmBxDqdfG2rrlL6G@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e81a46253611eb9365ad979b21e83d2156b0121e.camel@cybertec.at>
References: <171753084225.2021730.5364580176816695483@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
<e81a46253611eb9365ad979b21e83d2156b0121e.camel@cybertec.at>
On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 12:15:45PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> 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.
The way I understand it, we have rows and columns, and each "cell" is a
field.
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