From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Adding a crucial element to an example
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:22:20 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <201008112122.o7BLMKT13539@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE129122-F02D-4985-A32A-A18DE7A81F09@numericable.fr>
John Gage wrote:
> After the CREATE statement I would simply put:
>
> INSERT INTO emp VALUES ('Bill', 4200, 45, '(2,1)');
>
> What that accomplishes is making it so the user can simply copy and
> paste the entire section and run it in pg_admin. Then, the user can
> start fiddling with it as he wants to.
>
> I know this sounds terribly simple, but simplicity is good,
> particularly when you're climbing a steep learning curve. And there
> is certainly, unequivocally, no harm in simplicity.
Our documentation got this good only through many small improvements
like this. :-)
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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