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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:59:38 -0600
From: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>,
	pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
> > Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? htt=
p://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example.
>=20
> They look great for simple cases, but I can't imagine them being very
> useful for SELECT, as an example.

You mean like these from Oracle? http://is.gd/dya2n

In general, looking at those diagrams irritates me, but I think that's most=
ly
because Oracle's documentation irritates me generally. The SELECT version
speicifically is probably not terribly useful, IMO.

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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
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