Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes: > On 17/07/10 23:36, Thom Brown wrote: >> On 17 July 2010 21:30, Joseph Conway<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Oracle SELECT: >>> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10759/statements_10002.htm
>> Yeah, that kinda chaotic. Looks like a sadistic puzzle from the >> Krypton Factor. :S > Mind you, that syntax is genuinely complex. It would look chaotic using > the text representation we currently use as well. Well, our own SELECT syntax isn't exactly short: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-select.html The problem I personally see with railroad diagrams is that there's so much whitespace in 'em. Our current SELECT syntax diagram fits on a page, more or less, but it would span multiple pages in railroad form. That doesn't make for a leap forward in comprehensibility IMO. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
