To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, elein <elein@varlena.com>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial 
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Comments: In-reply-to David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
	message dated "Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:40:36 -0700"
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:58:55 -0400
Message-ID: <28010.1090616335@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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.

			regards, tom lane