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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: Maiquel Grassi <[email protected]>
Cc: David Christensen <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Jim Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Adding comments to help understand psql hidden queries
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:41:53 -0400
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I wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Notably, I didn't like that some of the headers said "table" and some said
>>> "relation".  I made them all say "table", although you could certainly
>>> argue for the opposite.

>> I originally had "table", but then it felt weird in my testing when I was
>> describing a sequence or view it said table. So I'm a weak +1 for relation.

> My preference for "table" is likewise weak.  Anyone else have an
> opinion?

[ crickets... ]

After sleeping on it and taking another look at the output, I agree
that we need to use a mix of "relation" and "table", because some of
these queries definitely apply to all kinds of pg_class entries, while
for others we must be dealing with a table (or something reasonably
table-like, such as a foreign table).  I made another pass over it
to fix that, and pushed the results.

Thanks for working on this!  I know it's been a long process,
but sometimes that's what it takes to get to a consensus.

			regards, tom lane





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