X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31F4D1B366 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:15:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36781-02 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fetter.org (dsl092-188-065.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.188.65]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491F0D1B23E for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:15:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fetter.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fetter.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6NLF6Ut032153; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:15:07 -0700 Received: (from shackle@localhost) by fetter.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6NLF5HA032152; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:15:05 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:15:05 -0700 From: David Fetter To: Tom Lane Cc: Peter Eisentraut , Robert Treat , Joe Conway , elein , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial Message-ID: <20040723211505.GB7751@fetter.org> References: <20040722222104.GU7751@fetter.org> <200407222240.45890.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <15070.1090552467@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200407230903.30389.peter_e@gmx.net> <20040723185146.GV7751@fetter.org> <27387.1090611107@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20040723193413.GW7751@fetter.org> <27773.1090614640@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20040723204036.GY7751@fetter.org> <28010.1090616335@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28010.1090616335@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200407/30 X-Sequence-Number: 2438 On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:58:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter writes: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for > >> which any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial > >> is liable to become quite short. > > > Are there other pieces that are broken? > > Between the locale behavior and the trailing-spaces behavior, one > could make the case that the entire set of textual datatypes are > broken. Other examples will occur to your thought if you follow > pgsql-bugs. > > My point here is that one man's unusably broken feature may be > another man's quite useful feature. Postgres is a work in progress, > and probably always will be. I don't object to pointing out > shortcomings, but removing all mention of a feature because it has > some shortcomings seems not the best way. Fair enough. How about adding an explanation of the limits of table inheritance illustrated by that example (or other suitable one)? Cheers, D -- David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote!