Re: Views, views, views! (long)

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: andrew(at)supernews(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Views, views, views! (long)
Date: 2005-05-06 03:27:43
Message-ID: 200505052327.43966.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:17, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> On 2005-05-05, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
> furthermore, writing the views has often required
> delving into details of the backend implementation that are not well
> documented. (See a recent discussion here on typmods for an example.)

This argument at least is a red herring. The answer to a lack of
documentation about a widget is never to build more widgets that hide the
original widget and require more documentation, the answer is to better
document the orginal widget.

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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