Re: What is a tuple?

Tuple = row... Why not just use row? I know what a tuple is but it seems
like a word to impress more than inform.

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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Martijn van
Oosterhout
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 10:54 PM
To: Elaine Lindelef
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What is a tuple?


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:40:03PM -0700, Elaine Lindelef wrote:
> My apologies for the stupid question, but before I started using
> postgres I never came across the word "tuple" quite in this context
> before. I know  a "tuple" as "a data object containing two or more
> components" ... but I'm not sure of its precise meaning in the
> postgres universe. Is a tuple a row, a field value, a field value
> paired with its datatype, what? If someone asks me the size of my
> largest tuple, how do I calculate it? It seems to be related deeply
> to the structure of postgres somehow.

A tuple is a row. Isn't this in the glossary somewhere?
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.



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