Re: blatantly a bug in the documentation

am Mon, dem 24.11.2008, um 13:47:54 +0000 mailte Dave Page folgendes:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > A. Kretschmer wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, it is an argument. On the other side, it was a question today in
> >> the irc-channel (#postgresql) today, someone asked, why his funktion
> >> don't work. I think, such examples should not contain such code. It is
> >> not apparent that this function are not available.
> >
> > Perhaps the whole chapter could be improved if all the examples referred
> > to a set of tables and functions previously defined in the introduction
> > of the chapter. It would be good if the user could cut'n paste the code
> > and try it out directly, instead of having to reverse engineer the
> > tables/columns used for each example (and they're quite inconsistent).
> > Also, some examples give the complete code including CREATE FUNCTION and
> > others don't.
>
> It might also be useful to create such a database at initdb time so
> newbies have something interesting to look at right away.

Nice idea.

Andreas
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