Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 10:07:10 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: boopalan_sjb@yahoo.co.in, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need clarification on "field"
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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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