Re: Additional Material for Press Page

On Saturday 16 October 2004 20:39, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Functions: PostgreSQL functions now support emacs-style $dollar$
> > quoting allowing users to avoid messy nested quotes. Further, as an
> > benefit of the new Savepoints, PL/pgSQL functions now have limited
> > exception-handling ability using the EXCEPTION clause.
>
> "emacs-style"? I thought dollar quoting was invented here. Would it be
> good to detail the enhancements to pl/perl here? What about pl/php?
>

I think the functionality original came from trying to emulate perl-style here
documents, but either way as a vi user I now dislike the feature just on the
insinuation that it is emacs-style :-)

Also I could see documenting pl/perls enhancements here since it is bundled
with the server, but plphp should not be.

Also, make sure to change it to "Further, as a benefit".

> > Database Design: Database administrators can now change columns
> > in-place to other compatible data types using ALTER TABLE.
>
> Lose the "compatible"; you can in fact change anything using arbitrary
> transformations.

well, theres certainly a lot of extra hoops if you want to change floats to
tids, but I agree, that level of detail is fine for the docs but not needed
here.

>
> > Links To Other PostgreSQL Resources:
>
> What about a list of externally provided PLs?
>

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/PLLanguages

> > Graphical User Interfaces:
> > pgAdminIII
> > phpPGAdmin
> > pgAccess
>

phpPgAdmin :-)

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Robert Treat
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