Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [216.151.103.158]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3UN8r387442; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:08:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3UN8iR00656; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:08:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Peter Eisentraut cc: Joel Burton , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, webmaster@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Feature Sheet In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut message dated "Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:30:42 +0200" Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:08:44 -0400 Message-ID: <653.988672124@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200104/103 X-Sequence-Number: 677 Peter Eisentraut writes: > Joel, I have taken the feature list you posted a while ago and massaged it > and formatted in DocBook. An HTML rendition is attached. Not sure how to > proceed, but it should probably be posted somewhere. Looks pretty good. A couple minor suggestions: * Ports list entries for Windows should mention that Cygwin is needed; as is, it gives the impression that we run natively. * Query Language Features section should start out by saying that we support nearly all of SQL92 entry level, plus numerous features from SQL92 intermediate/full levels and SQL99. That's needed context for the details that the list then plunges into. Would it be appropriate to list the SQL92 entry level features we don't have? * "Support for UNION and UNION ALL, INTERSECT and EXCEPT" implies that we don't have INTERSECT ALL and EXCEPT ALL. Rephrase, possibly as "Support for UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT, including their ALL variants". * The mention of full-text indexing probably belongs in the sub-bullet about loadable extension functions, since it's not part of the standard install. Also, this sub-bullet should probably go more like "Loadable extension functions include soundex etc etc", to make it clear this is just some of 'em. regards, tom lane