On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:58:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Fair enough. How about adding an explanation of the limits of table inheritance illustrated by that example (or other suitable one)? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
