| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Most-common value docs in PG 12 |
| Date: | 2019-09-26 21:31:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20190926213107.GF16366@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:03:54PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:20:59PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Uh, people normally list things in defined order, so you would usually
> > not list them in non-defined order unless there is a purpose. Doing
> > that just to illustrate the order doesn't matter seems odd.
> >
>
> Well, that assumes there is a definition, and I don't think the zipcodes
> table is defined anywhere. So how do you know in what order are those
> columns defined?
In the USA, it is usually specific to general, i.e., city, state.
> Now, maybe the table should be defined somewhere in perform.sgml - I
> don't recall why exactly I chose not to do that, maybe because there is
> no universal definition (one country uses text, another number, ...)
Yeah, doesn't seem worth adding.
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