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From: Mike Diehl <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Update timestamp on update
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:45:16 -0600
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Is a working example something that people would like to see?  Or is this 
considered a good use of research time?

On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:20 am, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:52:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jeff Williams <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Thanks. Triggers was my first thought, but chapter 35 on Triggers
> > > didn't really indicate a way I could do this easily and scared me with
> > > a lot of c code.
> >
> > Yeah.  This is a documentation issue that's bothered me for awhile.
> > The problem is that we treat the PL languages as add-ons and therefore
> > the documentation of the "core" system shouldn't rely on them ... but
> > that leaves us presenting C-code triggers as the only examples in
> > chapter 35.  There is a paragraph in there suggesting you go look at
> > the PL languages first, but obviously it's not getting the job done.
>
> Chapter 35 is plpgsql.. do you mean chapter 32.4?
>
> > Anybody have a better idea?
>
> What about a See Also section ala man pages that links to trigger info
> for other languages?

-- 
Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
SAIC at Sandia National Laboratories.
(505) 284-3137




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