Re: COPY Error Message is Confusing

"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