Re: MySQL versus Postgres

I would also enquire whether one thinks that the examples should be
removed from the Postgres documentation for fear that they may be cut
and pasted into an application?

John

On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote:

> John Gage schrieb:
>
>> On reflection, I think what is needed is a handbook that features
>> cut and paste code to do the things with Postgres that people do
>> today with MySQL.
>
> Everyone of my trainees want such thing - for databases, for other
> programming-languages etc. It's the worst thing you can give them.
> The< will copy, they will paste and they will understand nothing.
> Learning is the way to understanding, not copying.
>
> Greetings,
> Torsten
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