| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial |
| Date: | 2004-07-23 20:58:55 |
| Message-ID: | 28010.1090616335@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for which
>> any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial is liable
>> to become quite short.
> Are there other pieces that are broken?
Between the locale behavior and the trailing-spaces behavior, one could
make the case that the entire set of textual datatypes are broken.
Other examples will occur to your thought if you follow pgsql-bugs.
My point here is that one man's unusably broken feature may be another
man's quite useful feature. Postgres is a work in progress, and
probably always will be. I don't object to pointing out shortcomings,
but removing all mention of a feature because it has some shortcomings
seems not the best way.
regards, tom lane
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