Re: COPY Error Message is Confusing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: COPY Error Message is Confusing
Date
Msg-id 23808.1018479361@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: COPY Error Message is Confusing  ("Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com>)
List pgsql-general
"Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com> writes:
>> It's not strictly a "tuple" until it's been loaded.

> I guess that depends on your definition of 'tuple'.  Are the rows returned
> by a select statment tuples if the select is a join of multiple tables.  I
> tend to think of a tuple as an ordered set of values but maybe I have it
> wrong.  In any event anyone of 'tuple', 'record', or 'row' would be less
> confusing than 'line'.

I agree that 'line' seems confusing in the presence of escaped newlines.

I prefer 'row' or possibly 'record' to 'tuple', however.  'tuple'
strikes me as unnecessarily jargon-ish in this context.

            regards, tom lane

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