From: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
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To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: hint infrastructure setup (v3) |
Date: | 2004-04-03 08:50:41 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0404031037180.1733@mordor.coelho.net |
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Dear Stephan,
> I can see them as potentially being useful for people who don't have alot
> of knowledge of SQL or our dialect thereof.
That is my audience.
> I think some of the ones shown may need better wording [...]
Sure. I'm not the man for writing very clear English sentences.
I may be more fluent in C;-)
> I'm not sure it's PostgreSQL's responsibility to teach SQL or even really
> to teach our own commands,
I don't know about postgreSQL responsability, but I am a teacher using
postgreSQL as a tool for teaching database. I don't need hints, but my
students may find sql a little bit easier to grasp if they have a little
bit more help from the error reports.
I can understand that this is not the main agenda of postgresql, which
is more about new features, better performance and sustained stability.
But it is my agenda as a teacher.
--
Fabien Coelho - coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr
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