| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Eric Mueller <eric(at)themepark(dot)com>, "'PostgreSQL general mailing list'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RE: RE: Re: MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare |
| Date: | 2001-01-03 17:47:30 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0101031244190.11357-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I'm baffled by what seems to be a lack of detailed documentation for
> > something so fundamental as the built-in functions.
>
> Just to add a particular point, in addition to Vince's excellent general
> points, as the one who was last to update the function documentation:
> The reason that there's no "detailed" documentation is that there are no
> details. How much can you write about round(), avg(), or current_user?
Actually, I like the 'grid' layout that the functions are listed in -- it
gives the syntax, the return value and an example of usage, all in a
single glance.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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